For their 2021 (latest data), the FBI (which Pew references for the article) did not include data from California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Jers

For their 2021 (latest data), the FBI (which Pew references for the article) did not include data from California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico and Pennsylvania. Unless I misunderstand that, we have no idea how much crime actually went up or down by those omissions alone. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/08/the-problem-with-the-fbi-s-missing-crime-data https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/08/the-problem-wi...