It seems to me that the value of accurate data is so enormous that red state legislatures especially might be persuaded to direct their state police to collect a standardized, accurate survey each year. The collection of which data is comparable across all states that join the survey. That is, a standardized format.
The momentum of this survey is such that eventually even blue states might be persuaded to join it, rather than continue to live in statistical darkness. Such data is very attractive to criminal justice bureaucrats as it has immense utility.
“It seems to me that the value of accurate data is so enormous that red state legislatures especially might be persuaded to direct their state police to collect a standardized, accurate survey each year.”
If even one state did that, it could easily be directly compared to UCR data. That is what both Kleck and Cramer did, essentially. The took a sample or samples, and rigorously compared them to the FBI UCR for the same period and location. That is how they discovered that the FBI UCR is only a small fraction of overall justified homicides.
Nice phrase. The world of the liberal depends on statistical darkness.