Contemporary advances in law enforcement information management and technology are laying an important foundation for recent efforts by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to create more detailed, accurate, and actionable measures of crime, criminality, and justice system performance. The BJS recently convened a Crime Indicators Working Group (CIWG) comprising law enforcement and justice leaders to provide guidance in the development of crime indicators using police administrative record information and other data sources to provide a better picture of the crime problem in local jurisdictions and throughout the nation.