A new book chapter serves as a great resource for anyone who works with gun violence data. The chapter appears in a new book called Why We Are Losing the War on Gun Violence in the United States. Chapter 3 provides a full accounting of federal data sources for gun...
The New York Times quizzed their readers on crime statistics, and has now released a report showing common areas of confusion or misperception. Most readers thought Chicago was the murder capital of the country. Readers also thought New York City was more violent than...
A new paper examines crime data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and makes some interesting findings. The pandemic appears to have had a marked effect on crime, as criminal incidents and arrests for many offenses plummeted just before stay-at-home orders were...