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Why the US needs better crime reporting statistics

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
Chicago is often invoked in political debates on crime.Scott Cornell/shutterstock.com

President Donald Trump has long focused on Chicago as a hotbed for American crime. This came up yet again on Oct. 8, when he said that he had directed the Justice Department to work with local officials in Chicago to stem violence in a city overwhelmed by its high...

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