The dramatic decline in crime that President Biden and other federal leaders touted this week has some analysts questioning whether a spotty data collection process is painting a misleadingly upbeat picture of public safety.
and other federal leaders touted this week has some analysts questioning whether a spotty data collection process is painting a misleadingly upbeat picture of public safety.Quarterly Uniform Crime Report from the first three months of the year showed that violent crime fell 15% nationwide. Attorney General Merrick Garland called it a part of a continued “historic decline.
Investing in the manpower to fill out logs for the National Incident-Based Reporting System — the federal recordkeeping system that is usually more granular than what departments require — is not something he sees local police jumping at the chance to do. Mr. Johnson said bigger police forces will hire civilians to be statisticians so officers don’t lose their patrol duties.
Mr. Johnson didn’t want to comment on the agency’s numbers but said statistics such as Baltimore’s sharp decline in homicides last year and so far this year are legitimate.
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