FBI and BJS Awarded $11.8 Million in FY 2017 to Boost Incident-Based Crime Reporting Funding was Provided Through the 2017 National Crime Statistics Exchange Initiative

U.S. law enforcement agencies recently received a total of $11.8 million in fiscal year 2017 grants through the National Crime Statistics Exchange initiative (NCS-X). NCS-X is administered by BJS in partnership with the FBI. Six states were awarded a total of $6.4 million to establish or enhance their National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), a more detailed method of collecting and reporting crime statistics, and 15 law enforcement agencies were awarded a total of $5.4 million to support their switch to NIBRS. Read the full press release here.