Crime in 2015
Subtitle: preliminary analysis
By: Matthew Friedman, Nicole Fortier, and James Cullen
Publisher: Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Crime; Statistics; Murder
Description: Major media outlets have reported that murder has surged in some of the nation's largest cities. These stories have been based on a patchwork of data, typically from a very small sample of cities. Without geographically complete and historically comparable data, it is difficult to discern whether the increases these articles report are purely local anomalies, or are instead part of a larger national trend. This report provides a preliminary in-depth look at current national crime rates. It provides data on crime and murder for the 30 largest U.S. cities by population in 2015 and compares that to historical data. This analysis relies on data collected from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police departments. The authors were able to obtain preliminary 2015 murder statistics from 25 police departments in the nation's 30 largest cities and broader crime data from 19 of the 30. The data covers the period from January 1 to October 1, 2015. As this report relies on initial data and projects crime data for the remainder of the year, its findings should be treated as preliminary as they may change when final figures are available.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20).

Online resource; title from PDF cover page (Brennan, viewed January 26, 2016).

Description based on online resource; title from scanned image of title page (HeinOnline, viewed May 5, 2017)