Beth Ashmead Latham
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19 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Hello and welcome to More or Less.
Hello, Tim.
Well, it's gathered by the FBI, but the source is police departments across the country who send the FBI their crime data.
No.
The FBI data has never managed to cover 100% of the country.
I spoke to a criminologist from Virginia Commonwealth University, Jay Albanese, and he explained why it's so difficult to get all the data.
In 2023, 85% of police departments sent in data to the FBI.
Well, let's start with population.
Although 85% of the law enforcement agencies submitted data in 2023, and that may not seem very high, in fact, it covers 94% of the population.
Seems to, but I'd never come to you with an assumption, Tim, so I checked.
The 2023 submissions include all the largest cities in America.
The biggest city that isn't included is Jacksonville, Florida, with a population of just under a million.
Yes, and so are places with high crime rates such as Memphis, St Louis, Baltimore, Detroit and New Orleans.
I checked this too and the 10 cities with the highest crime rates in the US are all included in the FBI data.
No.
Reporting rates briefly plunged in 2021 when they tried to bring in a new system.
But that was just teething problems.
In the latest full year data, 85% of law enforcement agencies are covered.
And that's the same as in 2020 when Trump was president.
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