January 5, 2000 -- The incident numbers used with the NIBRS Incident Report form are
of the form ##xxxxxyyyyy, where ## is the last two digits of the year, xxxxx is the
UIC and yyyyy is the sequential incident number. This format is inherently Y2K
noncompliant. That is, one cannot be absolutely sure that an incident whose number
starts with 00 occurred in the year 2000.
To correct this problem, we have modified a key STARS index today. With version 1.045,
when you view the case control screen displaying incidents listed in descending
order by incident number, the ones starting with 00 will precede those starting with 99.