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Because it's factual. Chicago is just one of many large cities that have been mis reporting their crime for years.

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Chicago reported incomplete crime data to FBI in 2021
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Data: FBI, The Marshall Project; Map: Jared Whalen/Axios Visuals
The Chicago Police Department failed to report five months of its 2021 crime data to the FBI, according to a Marshall Project analysis shared with Axios.

Chicago is among 20% of cities that reported incomplete data. Another 40% reported no data at all.
Why it matters: This information gap makes it harder to analyze trends and fact-check claims politicians make about crime.

"It's going to be really hard for policymakers to look at what crime looks like in their own community and compare it to similar communities," Jacob Kaplan, a criminologist at Princeton University, told The Marshall Project.