When and Where Does Crime Happen? At Home, After Midnight
Still, it was nice to see the FBI's annual report (1) arriving earlier than in past years and (2) again covering more than 95% of the US population as it had before a botched switchover to a new reporting system led to a collapse in 2021 in the share of law-enforcement agencies that sent in data. That new National Incident-Based Reporting System (which is up to 87.2% population coverage, with about 2,000 mostly smaller agencies still using the old summary reporting system) is also beginning to deliver on its promise of providing much more detailed information about crime in the US.
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