Researchers could have trouble identifying public safety trends, after 80 percent of NY police departments failed to submit data to the FBI.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Less than a quarter of New York police departments submitted data to the FBI 2021 crime statistics released last week, according to an analysis of the FBI’s data release.
Researchers use this data to identify trends in public safety. Experts have warned against drawing conclusions from the federal data because so many departments didn’t submit. “It's a lot easier to fit our 25,000 calls for service into a reporting system than the millions in New York City,” Lieutenant Scott Latham said.
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