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Working towards a US State Open Data Census
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Select Data: Crime and Justice #13

Closed waldoj closed 9 years ago

waldoj commented 9 years ago

Select the one dataset that serves as the touchstone of state-level crime and justice data.

waldoj commented 9 years ago

This is hard, because incident data is generally (always?) local data. It's often not within the state's power to collect this data.

emily878 commented 9 years ago

It would be GREAT if this was a court dataset. How about supreme court decisions, or appeals court decisions?

waldoj commented 9 years ago

Everybody would get an F, and no state would have the power to make their courts improve their data.

emily878 commented 9 years ago

Of course corrections data would also be useful. I'll bet there's more precise counts available at the state level than what gets collected federally.

emily878 commented 9 years ago

(Sorry! Hit "close" by accident.)

emily878 commented 9 years ago

Incarceration data.