Crime Reporting
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of more than 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention. Since 1930, the FBI has administered the UCR Program and continued to assess and monitor the nature and type of crime in the Nation. The program’s primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management; however, its data have over the years become one of the country’s leading social indicators. Criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the media, and other students of criminal justice use the data for varied research and planning purposes.
Source: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s
Crime Statistics
UCR Part 1 Crime statistics are the measurement that the police department uses most often to gauge progress in our efforts to decrease crime in our city. Although there was a small increase in the number of reported crimes in 2021 and 2022, the City of Brunswick has seen decreases every year since then: a decrease of 19% in 2023, 5% in 2024, and 13% in 2025. The Brunswick Police Department employs multiple strategies in the effort to decrease crime including: a renewed focus on community oriented policing strategies; additional directed patrol enforcement; the utilization of new technologies; increased awareness and monitoring of gang-related crimes; and participation in a multi-agency violent crime task force.
Neighborhood Planning Assemblies
Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs) are grassroots neighborhood organizations that encourage residents to actively participate in their City Government. The police department supports these groups by providing neighborhood level crime maps and statistics to educate members and
