Each year for the past eight decades, the FBI releases a comprehensive report that criminologists rely on to analyze and understand crime trends. It contains 64 percent fewer data tables than the 2015 version ― 52 tables are just simply gone. Peter Wood authored the letter on behalf of the Crime & Justice Research Alliance, a joint project of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Katie Ray-Jones, the CEO of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, said the 2016 report makes it much more difficult to identify the number of women murdered by their partners. “The 2016 report makes it impossible to continue to monitor trends.”He urged the FBI to immediately release the missing tables.

Source: Huffington Post November 29, 2017 23:14 UTC