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Data Systems for Policing in the 21st Century: Facilitating the Implementation of Incident-Based Data Systems is divided into five sections. The Introduction provides a general overview of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) funded a project that led to a National Symposium on NIBRS, and the publication of this resource manual. The remainder of the guide draws upon the papers presented at the conference. In all, there were 30 presenters at the conference, and selecting papers for this resource guide was not easy. A panel comprising PERF, FBI, and BJS staff, as well as several symposium participants, selected presentations for inclusion in this resource guide. Seven of the presenters provided written versions of their presentations. The result was
the seven papers included in this report. Individually, these papers tell an interesting story, and as a whole they provide a fairly comprehensive picture of the process involved in making the decision to implement a NIBRS-compatible system. They describe the trials and tribulations that go along with that decision and illustrate how information from the new system can be used to solve crimes in the community.
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