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Linking Uniform Crime Reporting Data to Other DatasetsLinking Uniform Crime Reporting Data to Other Datasets, A BJS Technical Report, outlines the contents and uses of the new Law Enforcement Agency Identifiers Crosswalk file. Because the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) uses a unique set of agency identifiers, linking crime reports to other types of local data has been almost impossible. This new datafile identifies each agency that participates in the UCR by the commonly used geographic identifiers from the Census Bureau and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For example, researchers using the crosswalk file will be able to link crime data to --
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