Democrats have found a way to force a drop in crime statistics: Just ignore half the crimes or more and lie.
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Latest DOJ data shows crime rates remain elevated under Biden
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New data shows a significant decrease in homicides and other violent crimes in the first quarter. Is it accurate?
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FBI Stats Show Plunge in Violent Crime, But There's a Catch
Other crime analysts have also cast doubt on the FBI data, noting that it only covers 77% of the U.S. population and should be considered preliminary, given that state and local law enforcement agencies have months to report their data and correct any errors.
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New data shows a significant decrease in homicides and other violent crimes in the first quarter. Is it accurate?
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07.13.2023
4 Reasons We Should Worry About Missing Crime Data
The FBI’s crime data is still incomplete — and politicians are taking advantage.
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Weihua Li and
Jasmyne Ricard
Anna Flagg, graphics editing
Agencies that fully participated
8,356 agencies submitted all 12 months of crime data in 2022
44% of all police agencies
Participated partially
4,464 agencies submitted less than 12 months of 2022 data
24% of all police agencies
Did not participate
6,097 agencies submitted no 2022 data
32% of all police agencies
Source: Agency participation data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Feb. 6, 2023, which was the deadline for local agencies to submit crime data for the Q4 2022 quarterly report. Local agencies had until April 3, 2023 to submit data for the FBI's 2022 national crime report, so the final participation status may change. Map only shows law enforcement agencies that police more than 5,000 people.
For the 2024 election season, we've updated this reporting to cover the latest changes — and debates — around crime stats.
For more than 100 years, the FBI has been collecting crime data from local police departments across the country through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which has been the gold standard of national crime statistics.
By 2020, almost every law enforcement agency was included in the FBI’s database. Some agencies reported topline numbers, such as the total number of murders or car thefts, through the Summary Reporting System. Others reported granular incident data with details about each reported crime through the newer National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
Crime Data Gap
Then it all changed in 2021. In an effort to fully modernize the system, the FBI stopped taking data from the old summary system and only accepted data through the new system. Thousands of police agencies fell through the cracks because they didn’t catch up with the changes on time.
The Marshall Project is tracking police agency participation using data obtained from the FBI. Here are four takeaways from our analysis.
Participation in the FBI's database improved slightly, with about two-thirds of law enforcement agencies now included.
More than 6,000 law enforcement agencies were missing from the FBI’s national crime data last year, representing nearly one-third of the nation’s 18,000 police agencies. This means a quarter of the U.S. population wasn't represented in the federal crime data last year, according to The Marshall Project’s analysis.
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