A journalist’s guide to the FBI’s 2021 crime statistics

Citation

Bennett, L., Mendoza, N., Nopper, T., & Kaplan, J. (2022). A journalist’s guide to the FBI’s 2021 crime statistics. The Center for Just Journalism.

The Center for Just Journalism created a guide to help journalists accurately interpret the 2021 FBI crime statistics specifically and crime data generally. The guide explains the complexities of the FBI's system of crime data collection, highlights the shortcomings of crime data collected by police departments, and suggests important pieces of context that journalists should make their audiences aware of when reporting on crime data.