>>109001078>>109001120Ah, so it's not the FBI, it's the DOJ. Still, interesting, very interesting.
>While many agencies report supplemental data on homicides, much of the data concerning offenders may not be reported because no suspects were identified or the agency chose not to report the information. The most significant problem in using SHR data to analyze offender characteristics is the sizable and growing number of homicides in the data file for which no offender information is reported. Ignoring these homicides with no offender information would understate calculated rates of off ending by particular subgroups of the population, distort trends over time among these same subgroups, and bias observed patterns of off ending to the extent that the rate of missing offender data is associated with offender characteristics. Since actual FBI statistics say only 3 out of 5 murder cases are solved, I wonder how they account for the holes in the data? They said they can't draw trends from that data because it's biased, so let's take a look at where these numbers came from:
>Unknown offender profiles were estimated based on the offender profiles in offender-known cases, matched on victim age, sex, and race; circumstances of the homicide; location of the homicide; gun involvement; and year.Oh, so they couldn't draw trends from the data because it's incomplete and a non-random sample, so the filled out the data with fake data extrapolated... by drawing trends from the incomplete, non-random sample. Great source. I can tell you really thought critically about this one.
