Question

The vast majority of crimes come to the attention of the police in response to citizen complaints. Citizens do not usually bother to inform the authorities if they do not think a crime is serious enough or feel that nothing can be done. This means that there might be serious bias in the:

Answer 1

Uniform Crime Report

Step-by-step explanation:

The uniform crime report is a program that collects data related to criminal activities in the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) publishes this report.

The data is collected from the law enforcement agencies. The agencies reports the crimes that has been brought to the attention of the agencies by the public and the crimes known by the agencies through different sources.

The majority of the crimes in the report are informed by the public. This creates a bias where only the public informed crime is considered and the crimes that have been solved by other sources is not considered.

So, the UCR is only represents the crimes reported by the public only.