A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to facilitate the collection of statistics with respect to the incidence of crime and to provide for the establishment of a National Crime Statistics Center, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Authorizes the President to establish, in the executive branch of the Government of the United States, a National Crime Statistics Center. Provides that the Center shall be headed by a Director appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the President to assign the statistical responsibilities of the Attorney General under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to the Center. Prescribes additional duties for the Center including to: (1) collect statistics from Federal, State, and local agencies in the criminal justice system; (2) work for improvement in the accuracy, completeness, and usefulness of these agency statistics by improving the existing series and commencing new series; (3) promote and assist in the development of adequate statistical systems at the State and local levels; (4) develop procedures and forms to be used in collecting data on a nationwide basis; (5) conduct surveys, censuses, and special studies in areas not covered by agency statistics and make an independent check of agency statistics where desirable; (6) investigate the need for various kinds of crime statistics; (7) supply any data collected, up…