The Problem With the FBI's 'Active Shooter' Data | RealClearPolitics

The Problem With the FBI's 'Active Shooter' Data | RealClearPolitics
"Many people are focusing on the political biases in the FBI’s treatment of the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns, but the political corruption of the agency goes deeper.  
One can also see it in the FBI’s raw crime data, particularly when it comes to the public shootings that have so galvanized Americans. 
The first report under the Obama administration came out in 2014, just weeks before the midterm elections, making it timed for maximum political influence.
 The FBI’s first report claimed that only once from 2000-2013 did a concealed handgun permit holder stop one of 160 reported “active shooter” attacks. 
These active shooter attacks include any time a gun is fired in a public place, even if no one is injured or killed. 
...The report got massive news coverage on the front pages of such newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, as well as all of the TV news networks. 
Gun control activists have frequently cited the report in court cases and in political debates to claim that civilians rarely use guns to stop public shootings.
Unfortunately, the problems with the reports have continued during the Trump administration.
...But the bureau misses at least 23 cases where permit holders saved the day.
That means they stopped 11.5 percent of active shooter incidents from 2000 to 2017. 
We at the Crime Prevention Research Center are more confident that we have all of the cases from 2014 to 2017, when 16.5 percent of attacks were stopped.
Back in 2015, when I pointed out errors in the original report, the FBI simply responded, “We acknowledge in the FBI report that our data are imperfect.” 
But no correction was ever made..."
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