In December 2019, the Bureau of Justice Statistics sponsored a one-day NCS-X workshop to gather input from stakeholders, including police practitioners, researchers, and crime and data analysts on ways to leverage incident-based data for enhanced tactical and strategic analysis and to improve policing practice and build community trust as a result of the nationwide transition to NIBRS.

This report summarizes the workshop’s key themes, a compilation of innovative analytic approaches identified by the workshop participants, and activities that could promote and accelerate the use of NIBRS data and is intended to help law enforcement practitioners, police executives, and researchers.