Law enforcement agencies have been gradually moving from reporting summary statistics to the FBI to reporting to NIBRS, a shift that is reflective of a larger trend among police agencies toward collecting more detailed, incident-based case information. In the most recent Crime in the United States report, the FBI stated that for 2012 a total of 6,115 law enforcement agencies reported their UCR crime statistics via NIBRS,2 out of 18,290 total police agencies participating in the UCR program. In 2012 NIBRS-contributing agencies served approximately 30% of the U.S. population3 and accounted for 28% of all crime reported to the UCR Program. While the number of law enforcement agencies reporting NIBRS data to the FBI continues to grow, many of the police departments representing large metropolitan areas throughout the nation still do not contribute data to the system. As a result, at the national level, incident-based law enforcement data are still unable to address the current information needs of policymakers, researchers, the media, and the public.

With a maximum range of 45 feet, the TASER 10 creates more distance for officers to de-escalate and resolve conflicts. In the event that de-escalation efforts do fail, officers can deploy up to 10 individually targeted probes without the need to reload for a less-lethal interaction.

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“As technology leaders in public safety, we have a responsibility to identify every possible way we can give officers better tools to reduce officer-involved shootings,” said Axon CEO Rick Smith. “We have worked tirelessly to develop TASER 10 because we know that public safety needs better ways to stop imminent threats and protect their communities and themselves without lethal force. TASER 10 ushers in the potential for a less-lethal future, and we are confident it will be a key factor in helping to cut gun-related deaths between police and the public by 50% in the next 10 years.”

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The TASER 10 also provides more opportunities than other less-lethal options to immediately stop a threat without needing to reload by being a two-probe-connect energy weapon. The first trigger pull discharges a single probe without electrical output and the second trigger pull discharges a second probe to create neuromuscular incapacitation (NMI). The device provides additional opportunities to obtain effective NMI when the subsequent trigger pulls if the previous probes did not connect.

To spur the development of NIBRS into a nationally representative source of detailed crime statistics, in 2012 BJS spearheaded an initiative titled the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X). NCS-X is designed to generate nationally representative, incident-based data on crimes reported to law enforcement agencies by recruiting a select sample of agencies to report NIBRS data to the FBI. In 2013, BJS and the FBI signed a joint statement of support for NCS-X and agreed to work together to expand NIBRS coverage through funding, training, and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies across the United States.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Axon recently announced the release of TASER 10, marking the unveiling of its first product following their announcement of a “moonshot” goal to help cut gun-related deaths between police and the public by 50% in the next decade.

In addition, the SRS collected counts of arrests only for an additional set of offense categories, broken down by the age, sex, and race of the arrestee.

Axon added a pulsing light and loud alert sound to the TASER 10, which emits whenever the weapon’s Warning Alert is initiated. This allows the user the opportunity to de-escalate without deploying cartridges.

For training purposes, TASER 10 can be integrated with Axon VR, allowing officers to receive advanced technical training to enhance proficiency, use-of-force decision-making, confidence and accuracy under stress. Users can also use the TASER 10 in combination with Axon Evidence and The Axon Network for a broad range of multi-functional resources from pulse graphs, weapons activity, event logs, and firing log storage to Axon bodycam and in-car camera accessibility.

An additional safety improvement to the TASER 10 includes its individually targeted probes, which enable the user to create their own spread, compared with the previous need to deploy two probes simultaneously at a predefined angle.

The NIBRS expands on the ten offense types measured in the SRS and collects incident and arrest information from law enforcement agencies for 22 categories of offenses in Group A, as well as arrest information only for ten additional offenses in Group B.1In addition to counts of crimes and arrests, NIBRS was designed to collect detailed information on the attributes of each crime incident known to law enforcement, including—

Further safety enhancements include an onboard sensor that pairs with certified holsters and the ability for the TASER 10 to detect when it has been removed from a holster. It also logs the de-holstering event and emits a wireless signal to alert local body cameras to begin recording.

Since 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has collected information about crimes known to and arrests made by law enforcement. The UCR Summary Reporting System (SRS) collected monthly counts of the number of crimes known to law enforcement from thousands of agencies throughout the United States. Information on the number of crimes known was recorded for ten offense categories, based on the most serious offense reported for each crime incident:

In 1982, BJS and the FBI sponsored a study of the UCR Program, with the objective of revising the program to meet the changing needs of law enforcement moving into the 21st century. This effort to provide more comprehensive and detailed crime statistics resulted in the report Blueprint for the Future of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which proposed the development and implementation of a new data collection, the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).