From Council on Criminal Justice:
CCJ’s Crime Trends Working Group today released recommendations to strengthen the nation’s crime data infrastructure and better equip policymakers with timely, accurate, and usable data essential to effectively address community violence and other crime.
Composed of 16 expert producers and consumers of crime data from law enforcement, state and local government, public health, academia and the advocacy community, the Working Group said that despite recent improvements, national crime data fall short of what the country needs to sufficiently understand, control, and prevent crime.
Read the full report here.
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