The most obvious weakness of the Uniform Crime Report rests on what?
A. The fact that rural crime is too often relegated to lower ranking indices.
B. The fact that only those crimes brought to the attention of the police are included in the database.
C. The fact that the continued use of multistage cluster sampling prevents serious analysis at the individual case level.
D. The fact that the vast majority of data collected and included in the UCR is relegated for use by specially designated federal agents only.
B. The fact that only those crimes brought to the attention of the police are included in the database.
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