http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2008/03/crime_data_bona.html Mike Maltz writes,... en-us <p>Mike Maltz writes,</p> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2008/03/crime_data_bona.html <p>I haven't looked at crime data in decades; the old thought was that murder is best reported because it's serious and RELATIVELY unambiguous.</p> <p>Therefore, it might be possible to use relative rates of murder and other crimes as some sort of under-reporting indicator. </p> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/001628.html#547424 <p>Very interesting. You know, this is one of the main sub-plots in all five season of The Wire, too. </p> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/001628.html#547919 <p>That dataset is 150 MBs, if anybody interested in downloading it. I think I'll wait to use the campus high speed lines, instead. </p> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/001628.html#550673 <p>I've been working with Mike to get the data in a format that's more amenable for analysis with a statistics package (i.e one csv for each state). Let me know if you're interested - my contact details are available at http://had.co.nz</p> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/001628.html#561056 <p>This is fantastic. I'd like to add it to http://infochimps.org -- may I?</p> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/001628.html#565616