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As I explained previously, none of the three primary methods of gathering crime stats — crime reports, number of arrests, or victimization surveys — is perfect.

Despite the shortcomings of each approach, together (and combined with other observations) they provide a decent picture of crime in the United States, in general. And with the FBI’s move to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (which I describe in the “Relying on crime reports” section), this system will automatically take statistical reports from police agencies’ computer systems — and as a result, crime report stats will become even more valuable.