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Brilliant_Rock
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Why don't you look upthread. If you want tables there are nice little download links on the Explorer program back to 1995. I don't care that statisticians might have to work a little harder for their info. It's not like the FBI just stopped collecting it.
Okay, I did. And I downloaded the tables from CDE Explorer on Homicide offender demographics from Idaho. And you know what I found? Exactly as fivethirtyeight said: that the raw data tables from Explorer provide aggregate 10-year data, NOT individual year data, which is what they're complaining about in the article.
"The FBI noted that in addition to its decision to streamline the report, UCR had launched a Crime Data Explorer, which aims to make crime data more user-interactive. But data contained in the explorer does not replicate what is missing from the 2016 UCR report, and it doesn’t allow users to view data for particular years, but rather aggregates trends over a minimum period of 10 years."
So while Explorer may provide a little pull-down for the year, don't be fooled: it doesn't provide individual data for that year.
The pictures below are screen shot with arrow annotations to bring your attention to the date range:
You may want to reassess your opinion of the accuracy of that fivethirtyeight article. I'm more than happy to be proven wrong; feel free to post the data tables for individual years.