Incomplete Data: One-Third of American Cities No Longer Report Crime Statistics to the FBI - The Truth About Guns

Tracking crime statistics – and more importantly, whether or not crime is rising or falling in the United States – is getting harder to do. 

 That’s because nearly a third of America’s cities are no longer reporting crime statistics to the FBI. - Salam Fatohi

It also means that some policymakers are demanding bad policy because they’re relying on incomplete data.

• The Marshall Project reported that 31 percent of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI’s national database after transitioning to a new data collection system, according to the latest statistics from the FBI...

Courtesy The Marshall Project