Implementing NIBRS in Kansas Or Stumbling Down the NIBRS Yellow Brick Road

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Implementing NIBRS in KansasOr Stumbling Down
the NIBRS Yellow Brick Road
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Incident Based Reporting In Kansas

• Implemented in 1984 by all agencies except the
  Wichita Police Department
• New KIBRS program released in 1993 that was
  thought to be NIBRS Compliant
• Revised KIBRS program implemented January 1, 1999
  that was NIBRS Compliant

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KIBRS 1984Before the Tornado Struck

• Fifteen major agencies submitted data by tape or
  floppy
• KBI able to keep up with data entry
• Data converted to UCR for FBI
• Database used for crime analysis
• Stolen Property
• Suspect comparisons by victim / crime type

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KIBRS 1993The Wicked Witch of the North Places a
Curse on Kansas
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1993 Problems

• Only three agencies were able to submit data on
  floppy
• State supplied software was a data entry program
  that only met state needs
• Requirements for submitting electronically were
  confusing to other vendors and hard to follow

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1993 Problems Continued

• First data entry program for KBI staff was not
  user friendly and had large time delays between
  screens
• Second program was written in Dbase
• Provided to operators 6 months after
  implementation
• Learning curve and database problems quickly
  resulted in a 1 year backlog
• More data to key because less agencies submitting
  electronically

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• Kansas not able to meet Crime in the United
  States deadlines since 1993.
• No Crime in Kansas published since 1994.
• Most current data available 1998!

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1997 Along came the Munchkins

• KCJIS Launched
• KCJIS Advisory Board Structured
• KIBRS Subcommittee
• The four major agencies representing 75 of all
  crime data reported
• Two smaller agencies also on committee

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KIBRS Subcommittee

• Reviewed and supported existing data elements
• Recommended that reporting standards be based on
  NIBRS and not necessarily state statute
  requirements
• Conceived concept of KIBRS Gateway

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KIBRS Gateway

• Software application that contains the state
  required edits
• Provides a standard method for the submission of
  KIBRS data using Secure Remote and the Internet
• Provided free of charge to interfacing agencies

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1998We Contracted with the Lion, Scarecrow, and
Tinman
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Contracts Awarded

• Business Software and Equipment (BSE) for a local
  Law Enforcement Case Management Application and
  KIBRS Gateway
• Paradigm4 for KIBRS data entry program at the
  KBI, KIBRS database and NIBRS conversion program
• Brian Huffman, Huffman Interprises
  877-814-6309 Voice/Fax/Message
• BSE

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Local Case Management Application

• Developed in Microsoft Access
• Contains the KSOR and the KSAR
• Allows agency to transfer data from KSAR to a
  fingerprint card and Kansas Disposition Report
• Provides for Supplement case reporting
• Provides for the data entry of the Kansas
  Accident Report Form
• Creates a file for field contacts and warrants

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KIBRSLE Application

• Released May 1999 to 125 agencies
• Version 1.6.0 with Gateway released October 2000
• 21 agencies using the application are currently
  submitting through the Gateway
• 104 agencies have requested Version 1.7.1
  currently being released

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KIBRS Gateway Interface Agencies

• Two agencies currently certified to submit
  through Gateway
• Four other agencies will complete testing by the
  end of this quarter
• Those four agencies are working with vendors that
  are contracted to 16 other agencies
• Five other vendors currently working on interface
  that have contracts with 32 agencies

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Four Agencies with Populations over 100,000

• Wichita PD has completed initial testing,
  expected implementation March 2002
• Topeka PD is signing contracts with a vendor
  currently testing through another agency
• Kansas City PD vendor is actively working on
  interface
• Overland Park PD is certified and submitting data

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NIBRS CertificationWe have met the Wizard of
Oz but we still havent found the Rainbow
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NIBRS Testing

• Testing started in January 2000
• Sixteen submissions
• Error rate for both arrests and incidents was
  less that 0.4
• This means that our Gateway Edit program is
  correct!
• Certified NIBRS Compliant on February 16, 2001

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What would I have done different?

• Developed a thin client case management system
  managed by the KBI
• Small agencies have little if any access to
  technical assistance
• Once the agencies outgrow ACCESS we cannot
  convert to SEQUEL because of the lack of
  technical support at the local level
• Taken more control over the Case Management
  subcommittee

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What do we need to do to find the Rainbow?

• Training, training and more training
• One on one contact with agencies using the
  KIBRSLE Application
• Development of an interactive Kansas crime
  statistic site for the public
• Get published in CIU 2001

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Documentation about the Kansas Criminal Justice
Information System Improvement Project can be
found atwww.kbi.state.ks.us