18 Jun 2024 9:20 am
That reliable government data:
I included the caveat “FBI Says” in the chart headline because the agency’s crime statistics haven’t been super reliable lately. One issue has been a new crime-reporting system that many local law enforcement agencies took years to switch over to, although most have by now. Another is the lack of quality control apparent whenever one digs into the FBI’s data for individual police departments (and finds obviously incorrect information), which makes it hard to take the national numbers too seriously
I included the caveat “FBI Says” in the chart headline because the agency’s crime statistics haven’t been super reliable lately. One issue has been a new crime-reporting system that many local law enforcement agencies took years to switch over to, although most have by now. Another is the lack of quality control apparent whenever one digs into the FBI’s data for individual police departments (and finds obviously incorrect information), which makes it hard to take the national numbers too seriously