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What will be an ideal response?
(1) The UCR only includes those crime that have been brought to the attention of the police. Crimes that fail to be reported or are not detected by the police are not included in the UCR database. (2) The UCR conforms to the hierarchy rule, meaning that in instances in which multiple crimes are perpetrated, only the most serious offense is reported in the database; therefore, many criminal offenses are not included in the federal crime data. (3) Underreporting of crime by victims, combined with the hierarchy rule, is evidence that the UCR undercounts the true amount of crime that has actually occurred.
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