Rates & Ratios Quiz – Katie Burkhart

There are 43 cities in this data. The crime rate is organized by violent crime (columns F-K) and property crime (Columns L-O). Fayetteville is ranked 3rd for total property crime with 3,401 reports. A big contributor to this number is larceny-theft with 2,603 reports....

Christina Wilkerson | Quiz 2

Question 1 -There are 43 police departments. -The crime rate is organized by violent and by property crime. Under violent crime, there is murder and non negligent manslaughter, legacy rape, revised rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Within property crime,...

Feb. 2 Class

Arkansas Public Media publishes work by Lemke Department of Journalism students Today, Arkansas Public Media in Little Rock is publishing two stories with graphics that my data journalism students produced. Along with this, Arkansas Public Media did a radio report on...

Feb. 1 Homework- Kamerin Hargrove

Much of the UCR data is available by CDs or discs, or even special programs. Files in which one actually has to have in order to download. My question is, where and how can we get access to these physical files? What are the steps in which the public can obtain the CD...

UCR Questions from Elliott

“Word About UCR Data” says in its second paragraph that “Most agencies make a good faith effort to comply with established guidelines.” My question is how is this ensured? Are there regular checks of these agencies to assure that the guidelines are being followed? Is...