Uniform Crime Reports - Limitations

Limitations

The UCR itself warns that it reflects crime reports by police, not later adjudication.

Also, not all states require municipalities to report data, making the crime statistics under-reported in UCR reports.

Read more about this topic:  Uniform Crime Reports

Famous quotes containing the word limitations:

    To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
    Willa Cather (1876–1947)

    No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)