And while the FBI’s data is based on information it receives from thousands of federal, state, county, city and other police departments, not all agencies participate every year. The FBI also looks mainly at a handful of specific violent and property crimes, but not many other types of crime, such as drug crime.

The FBI publishes annual data on crimes that have been reported to the police, but not those that haven’t been reported. The two primary sources of government crime statistics – the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) – both paint an incomplete picture, though efforts at improvement are underway. To measure public attitudes about crime in the U.S., we relied on survey data from Gallup and Pew Research Center. Information about the federal government’s transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System was drawn from the FBI and BJS, as well as from media reports. BJS statistics were accessed through the National Crime Victimization Survey data analysis tool. FBI statistics were accessed through the Crime Data Explorer. The analysis relies on statistics published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical arm of the U.S. crime patterns and how those patterns have changed over time. We conducted this analysis to learn more about U.S. Crime is a regular topic of discussion in the United States.

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