The Republicans say crime is exploding and they’re attempting to capitalize on that claim in the 2024 election campaigns.
The Democrats are saying that crime is down and they’re pointing to that to promote their agenda in the 2024 elections.
Who is correct?
Well, it might be difficult to say because 31 percent of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI’s national database in 2022, the latest year for which figures are available.
That’s an improvement, however, over the nearly 40 percent who failed to submit data in 2021, according to the MARSHALL PROJECT, an online news services.
In Louisiana, cooperation of local law enforcement is hard to come by. Fully 42 percent of the state’s agencies failed to report any crime data in 2022 and only 37 percent reported a full year’s crime data.
The largest jurisdiction in the state and the one with one of the highest crime rates in the state, New Orleans, failed to submit any data at all in 2022, according to the report, which said that 394,000 people live under the New Orleans Police Department’s jurisdiction. That’s 8 percent of all the people living in Louisiana.
Of the state’s 238 law enforcement agencies, which includes sheriffs, municipal departments and Louisiana State Police, only 137 submitted reports to the database in 2022. That represented 3.4 million of the state’s 4.6 million people, leaving data on crime data for the remaining 26 percent unreported.
Overall, Louisiana had the 11th lowest reporting rate in the nation. Florida was the worst, with only 8 percent of its agencies submitting data. Mississippi was 7th lowest with 48 percent of agencies not reporting. Delaware and Oklahoma tied for first, each with 100 percent participation.
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I suppose there are a variety of reasons why data is not reported. I sure would like to see a honest survey on what those reasons are and whether or how it has changed over time.