NCJ Number
133200
Date Published
1991
Length
142 pages
Annotation
Complaint data on offenses known to have occurred and arrest data for New York City, as compiled in this report, conform to guidelines established by the Uniform Crime Reporting Committee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Abstract
Five report sections contain crime index data for New York City including data on property stolen and recovered; crime complaint data; arrest data; summons data; and crime comparison data by city, borough, division, and precinct police commands. Generally, in multiple offense situations when several different reportable offenses are committed at the same time by the same person(s), both complaint data and arrest data are reported against the most serious offense. If two or more offenses are of equal seriousness, the one reported is the offense listed first on FBI and New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services forms. This technique of classifying and scoring the highest offense applies only to crime reporting and does not affect the number of charges for which the defendant may be prosecuted in court.