FBI's Crime Data Collection Still Being Stymied By Major Police Departments Not Reporting Crime Stats
Failures The FBI has switched to a new crime reporting system to collect crime data from all over the nation. Despite being given a long runway (th...
Failures The FBI has switched to a new crime reporting system to collect crime data from all over the nation. Despite being given a long runway (the 2021 switch was announced in 2015), the FBI is still seeing an incredible lack of contribution. The new system is more granular, eliminating the past reduction of crime reporting to the most serious crime charged (for instance, an armed robbery involving a car theft would have been reported as only an armed robbery). To be sure, the changes to how crime is reported to the FBI (and collated by local agencies) present some clerical and technical difficulties, but the federal government has handed out hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to support the switch.