NIBRS training Outline 3-9-22
NIBRS:
1. Acting in Concert Group A offenses (generally related to person crimes):
a. Requires ALL of the offenders to actually commit or assist in the commission of ALL
of the crimes in an incident. The offenders must be aware of, and consent to, the
commission of ALL of the offenses; or even if nonconsenting, their actions assist in
the commission of ALL of the offenses.
b. If one or more of the offenders did not act in concert, more than one incident is
required.
2. Same time and place (generally related to property crimes):
a. We’ve already been doing this so this is mostly understood already.
3. Do not include “lesser” offenses that are essentially the same.
a. i.e. you would have Burglary, not burglary AND theft from a building.
4. Justifiable Homicide: The killing of a perpetrator of a serious criminal offense by a peace
officer in the line of duty, or the killing, during the commission of serious criminal offense,
of the perpetrator by a private individual.
Justifiable Homicide, by definition, always occurs in conjunction with a serious criminal
offense. Agencies must report the crime being committed when the justifiable homicide took
place (ex: aggravated assault by OF to the Officer) when the Justifiable homicide was
committed (shooting of OF by officer). The OF cannot “act in concert” in their own homicide,
and the victim of the serious criminal offense cannot “act in concert” with the offender against
the victim (themselves). Therefore 2 reports are needed.
5. New requirements of data elements:
a. Exceptional Clearance:
i. Types
1. Death of Offender
2. Prosecution Declined by the prosecutor (Records Only)
3. In Custody of another jurisdiction (Likely Records)
a. (where extraditions are formally declined or in circumstances
where an offender committed offenses in two jurisdictions and
was arrested in one of them.)-this will be updated by Records.
4. Victim refused to cooperate in the prosecution (Could be Patrol)
5. Juvenile/no custody (oral/written notice given to parents) (Could be
Patrol)
6. Not applicable (not exceptionally cleared) This is default
ii. Requires all four elements:
1. The LEA investigation must have clearly and definitively established
the identity of at least one offender.
2. The LEA must have sufficient probable cause to support arresting,
charging and prosecuting the offender.
3. The LEA must know the EXACT location of the offender so they could
make an arrest if circumstances did not prevent it. This one is the one
that generally makes exceptional clearance moot.
4. There must be a reason outside of the control of the LEA preventing
the arrest, charging and turning over for prosecution (see 1-4 above).
b. Offenses: report an offense if it is a separate, distinct crime, rather than just a part of
another offense. For example, Robbery includes elements of assault, but you don’t add
an assault charge, only the Robbery.
c. Victim relationship (In mutual combat you must also relate Victim to their own
“offender” record by selecting “victim is offender”.)
d. Offender Suspected of using:
i. Alcohol: if under the influence, or suspected of consuming alcohol during or
shortly before the incident
ii. Computer Equipment (includes cell phones, smart devices, etc) using this type
of item to commit the crime (or contributed to it). Vehicle manslaughter when
on the phone sending texts
iii. Drugs/Narcotics: if under the influence, or suspected of using drugs during or
shortly before the incident.
iv. N/A if none apply
e. # of premises is based on Burglary/Theft and if the location is hotel/Motel etc or
Storage locker
f. Resident status (self-explanatory for those with physical addresses)
i. Transients:
1. if a “frequent flyer” within your jurisdiction they are a resident
2. if they are known to generally live in an encampment or other area
within another jurisdiction within the county, they are resident of
county but not jurisdiction.
3. If they are just “passing through” you could use “unknown” until we
establish some sort of history and then 1 or 2 would apply.
g. Cargo Theft
i. To classify a theft as ‘cargo theft” it has to be a “commercial shipment” that is
“in the supply chain”. This means it has left its origination location and not yet
arrived at the destination. If the truck/train/vessel etc is broken into somewhere
in transit and the good stolen it could be cargo theft. This is rare.
h. Offenses that trigger “types of activity” to be required (list of types 1-8 after
Counterfeiting/Forgery apply to all but Animal Cruelty) :
i. Counterfeiting/Forgery
1. Buying/Receiving
2. Cultivating/Manufacturing/Publishing
3. Distributing/Selling
4. Exploiting Children
5. Operating/Promoting/Assisting
6. Possessing/Concealing
7. Transporting/Transmitting/Importing
8. Using/Consuming
ii. Stolen Property Offenses
iii. Drug/Narcotic (and equipment) violations
iv. Gambling equipment
v. Pornography/obscene material
vi. Weapons
vii. Animal Cruelty
1. Simple/Gross Neglect
2. Organized abuse
3. Intentional Abuse or Torture
4. Animal Sexual Abuse (Bestiality)
i. Vehicle
i. When entering vehicle on property crimes do NOT associate the vehicle with
the offense (unless the vehicle is stolen) and select the status of “none”
1. Exception…. If damage is greater than $5000 then you would add a
594 offense and associate the vehicle with the vandalism.
j. Property Status
i. Seized (only regarding drugs or drug paraphernalia)
1. Drug cases require Drug type, amount, etc to be entered into the drug
section
2. Paraphernalia goes in Property section
ii. Entries of property when not required (like on person crimes)
1. Do not associate the offense
2. Status is “none”
3. No class/no value but the rest can be filled out.
iii. Burgs with no property stolen:
1. Property entry with no description just associate the offense and list
status of “none”
iv. Kidnapping:
1. Ransom… if paid… enter money as stolen
2. If not paid… entry with no description associate offense and status of
“none”
k. New Property types
a. Go over property types on list.
OLD STUFF TO REVIEW:
1. 964
a. Should be no different than what you would write on the PC statement with a
booking.
i. Short summary (not a copy of the narrative )
ii. Include the offenses (this is a standalone document)
iii. Do NOT include victim name or other information regarding the victim
2. Existing Name records:
a. Believe it or not a good # of the folks you contact already have existing records.
If you copy from the event make sure you “search” (remove a middle name or
a letter of the other names) and pull over the existing card.
b. ALWAYS check the basic info (phone and address) to make sure it is accurate
and update where it is not.
c. When creating a new name record, fill out (at minimum) name (first and last),
DOB, physical (you need to have sex and race) address and phone number.
Even if this is an employee who is a witness or RP.
i. USE ALL CAPS
3. Choose correct theft offense.
a. Much better on these but there are still a few (all other) and (from building)
that pop up when it really is a different classification.