Strategy 1: Use data to understand crime trends.

Analyze your state’s overall property and violent crime trends and how current crime rates compare to trends over the past decade.
Assess changes in crime trends for individual types of property and violent crimes.
Analyze overall arrest rates and changes in arrest rates for different types of crime at the state and local level.
Analyze available victimization data to determine how much and what types of crimes haven’t been reported to police and how those trends have changed over time.
Review how data trends have changed across different regions of the state, including metropolitan, micropolitan, and rural areas.

Require all law enforcement agencies to participate in NIBRS, and provide funding, as needed, to support this effort.
Collect and report on victimization data.
Require law enforcement, courts, corrections, and supervision agencies to collect and report on demographic information.

Require that a unique SID number be assigned to every person in the criminal justice system and be used universally.
Ensure that criminal justice agencies have the capacity to share information and foster collaboration across agencies.
Require criminal justice agencies to publish aggregated criminal justice data online.
Provide state and local criminal justice agencies with access to research and recommendations on best practices.