By Olivia Madera
For fifty years, the City of Oxnard has participated in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program by contributing data under their traditional Summary Reporting System.
When the FBI retired the SRS, they introduced the National Incident-Based Reporting System and the Oxnard Police Department started reporting NIBRS-compliant crime data on November 15, 2022. Because of this, the California Department of Justice requirements that are specific to California through the California Incident-Based Reporting System were met.
According to the news release, the NIBRS shifts the way the OPD reports crime. It captures incident-specific details, including information on victims, known offenders, relationships between victims and offenders, arrestees, property, and drugs involved in crimes.
The news release said this transition gives the OPD context to specific public safety problems and the ability to provide more detailed, accurate, and meaningful information about crime. However, the report said the differences between the NIBRS and the CIBRS have affected the overall crime amounts in Oxnard compared to previous years.
The biggest differences of the NIBRS are that it will allow more offenses to be reported per incident, more types of offenses will be collected, and more crime categories will be categorized.
On February 23, 2024, Chief of Police Jason Benites prepared Oxnard’s 2024 Uniform Crime Reporting Data in the form of a news release and supplemental report.
The data collected displayed that generally speaking there was a decrease in crime in the City of Oxnard. (Please see report).
The table below contains UCR crimes reported in 2024 under the NIBRS Group A Schedule:
2 Reported offenses that occurred in 2023 from the FBI’ s Crime Data Explorer, updated September 23, 2024.