Another large decline in shooting victims in August in Gun Violence Archive. Overall, fatal shooting victims down 11% as of Aug 31 and overall shooting victims down 13% relative to YTD 2023.

The Real-Time Crime Index is launching tomorrow showing national crime trends from a sample of more than 300 agencies. We are having a preview webinar today at 12 PM ET to show it off & discuss 2024 trends. Registration link below: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

If you missed the webinar you can catch it here: youtu.be/CfmRvx-rRmE?si…

Huge congrats to Jeff Asher and team on the launch of the Real Time Crime Index! Thank you for providing this tremendous resource! open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p/t…

The Real-Time Crime Index (Real-Time Crime Index) launches today with data from more than 300 agencies nationwide! The RTCI is designed to show national crime trends as they develop from as many agencies as possible with as little lag as possible. realtimecrimeindex.com

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The significance of this resource can’t possibly be overstated. Check out the Real-Time Crime Index and then ask your local law enforcement agency to consider supplying their own data to the project.

One of the main flaws of crime data in the US is that it takes so long to assemble and publish. In fact, we're still waiting on official data for 2023. The new Real Time Crime Index (Real-Time Crime Index) launched today and aims to fix that problem: realtimecrimeindex.com

I am very intrigued by Jeff Asher new Real Time Crime Index, which seeks to fill major lags in national data by tracking a representative sample of 300+ agencies. FBI is notoriously slow on national numbers. semafor.com/article/09/04/…

Neat! The Real Time Crime Index launched today and it provides more up-to-date estimates of crime rates than the various government sources that take a year to update. Here's murder updated through June of this year:

New: The Real-Time Crime Index launched yesterday (realtimecrimeindex.com) and today I'm taking a deeper dive into how it shows declining crime in 2024. Check it out below! jasher.substack.com/p/the-real-tim…