incident-based reporting was tried and rejected in favor of summary-format reporting. The page indicates:

In 1976, Florida was one of the first states to abandon the traditional method of collecting UCR data on a monthly basis and initiated a sophisticated offense-by-offense or incident-based reporting program. Municipal police and county sheriff’s departments reported the individual offense data known to them in the following crime categories: murder, non-traffic manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In addition, local law enforcement agencies reported supplemental offense information such as the number of victims, victim’s age, sex and relationship to offender, type of weapon used, the value of property stolen and recovered, circumstances surrounding homicides and other pertinent crime data.

The transition was apparently not smooth, with 1989 being the “first full year of data under the enhanced UCR program”—and that said to be after the program endured a rough “transition year” in 1988, when several reporting agencies were unable to accommodate revised system and data format requirements. Finally, “in 1996, the Florida UCR changed its data collection method from a monthly reporting of crime incidents to a semiannual reporting of summary offense data. With the change from an incident based system to a summary based system, supplementary data such as victim information are no longer available on all offense data except homicide.” Summary-only reporting from FDLE to the national UCR program has continued through the present, though the FDLE was a recipient of a National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) grant in 2015 to develop a plan for equipping a state-level, NIBRS-certified system and program.