Jeremy Vine – Data is Plural “The Real-Time Crime Index, launched last week by a team of crime-data analysts, presents a “sample of reported crime data from hundreds of law enforcement agencies nationwide which mimics national crime trends with as little lag and the most accuracy possible.” Framed as a supplement to the FBI’s slow-to-update official statistics, the project provides monthly and rolling 12-month totals of reported crimes (using the FBI’s UCR Part I offense categories) for the nation, individual cities, and by city population size. You can download the data and see the sources for each of the 300+ local agencies in the national sample. Read more: “The Real-Time Crime Index Shows Declining Crime in 2024,” from project co-leader Jeff Asher’s newsletter.”