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Corrections
This site publishes specific figures about named law enforcement agencies. If one of them is wrong, we want to know — and when we fix it, we say so here rather than quietly editing the page.
Reporting an error
Email [email protected]. The fastest thing you can include is the agency name and its ORI — the FBI identifier printed at the bottom of every agency page — and the figure you believe is wrong.
If a number here does not match an agency’s own records, the discrepancy is usually in what was filed with the FBI rather than in this site’s arithmetic — Police Census reproduces what the agency reported and does not adjust it. That is still worth telling us: where the filed figure is the problem, we would rather say so on the page than leave a number standing that the agency itself disputes.
What we correct, and how
A correction is published below with what the page said before and what it says now. The alternative — editing the page and saying nothing — leaves anyone who already read the old version still believing it.
Not every disagreement is an error. Where a figure is correctly reproduced from its source and the dispute is with the source, we say that on the page rather than changing the number. Where this site got it wrong, it goes in this log.
Published corrections
| Date | Where | What it said | What it says now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | /law — the 24 pages for 28 C.F.R. Parts 20 and 23 found internally | Every section of 28 C.F.R. Part 20 and Part 23 was published under the heading "Crime reporting to the FBI", which described them as the regulations behind the UCR and NIBRS crime statistics this site publishes. | Part 20 is headed "Criminal history records" and Part 23 "Criminal intelligence systems", which is what each part says it governs — rap sheets and the Interstate Identification Index in the first case, intelligence databases in the second. Neither is the UCR/NIBRS regulation. There is in fact no CFR part implementing UCR/NIBRS: 28 U.S.C. § 534 is the authority and participation is FBI policy rather than regulation, which the /law page now states rather than filling the gap with an adjacent part. |
Source
How each dataset is collected, what it does and does not claim, and when it was last refreshed is on Method & sources.