[oicu812]

As noted in the article: crime is down with 72% of the law enforcement agencies reporting. No mention of which agencies have not reported yet (Chicago, Baltimore, other inner city high-crime areas?)

From the FBI, the actual numbers will not be released: "The number of incidents will be publicly released when 80 percent participation levels are met."

This feels like a heavily biased article in an election year.

[hughesjj]

....what?

I mean, as you noted, the article says that 72% of reporting agencies saw a decrease. That's going to be true independent of any bias of the outstanding/non-reporting population. I don't see how your point is meaningful.

I also disagree that the article was 'heavily biased', given it spent roughly half its length talking about the issues with the FBI datasets, and that it's written in response to an espoused narrative that isn't even congruent with the data we do have.