Alexis Piquero, a contributor to The Crime Report who has published widely on areas ranging from crime prevention to the intersection of sports and crime, will head the Bureau of Justice Statistics at a time when dependable data has never been more critical to the debate over justice reform.
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The tools to fight crime and measure crime statistics are outdated, says the New York Times. Examples of crimes that are uncounted include identity theft, credit card fraud and ransomware attacks.
The Columbus Dispatch finds three different agencies with murder statistics for the city ranging from 91 to 106 last year. “I would hope I never go under the knife with a surgeon who is as accurate as your murder numbers,” said Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project.
NAS committee calls for more focused data-reporting on police shootings, and new categories such as crimes against the environment and child sex exploitation.
Four major U.S. law enforcement organizations are calling for an overhaul of the nation’s system of reporting crime data. The…
Jeffrey Sedgwick, former director of the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, has been named the new executive director of the…
FBI crime statistics, critical to a city’s reputation, need more scrutiny by investigative journalists, says Ben Poston of the Los…
James Lynch, President Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday…
Each year journalists from around the world gather at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference. The Crime Report’s Julia Dahl…
Stuart S. Smith, for many years the federal government’s chief spokesman on crime statistics, died last week of multiple myeloma.…