Posted on 08/22/2024 8:58:53 AM PDT by rktman
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).
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at themarshallproject.org ...
That brings crime rates down. If they stopped reporting completely we could wipe out crime just like that.
Well, yes, due to their policies, the reporting system is a mess.
So we have less crime.
Crime not reported is obviously no crime.
What’s out there does not matter, what matters is what’s in government database!
You know, government knows the best!
Some data is missing not just because law enforcement hasn’t switched to the new system. Some is missing because since the FBI revealed itself as a partisan political organization, some local law enforcement no longer is much interested in cooperating with them.
The FBI has become more corrupt that Trump should announce that he will convene a blue ribbon commission that will evaluate and announce changes to the organization, or its total elimination.
Here’s a problem: Let’s say California defines felony theft as ‘theft of more than $950”... And Florida defines felony theft as stealing more than $750. And New York ignores reporting the truth about replete offenders committing most of the crimes etc etc etc... It’s not just the reporting that has to be updated - it’s also the understanding and interpretation behind the raw numbers.
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