On Wednesday, crime analyst Jeff Asher launched The Real-Time Crime Index (RTCI), which aims to presents a new way of looking at crime data by collecting current crime data from hundreds of law enforcement agencies nationwide to present national crime trends as never seen before: as they develop.
The RTCI currently has data from more than 350 agencies covering over 80 million people — though not all of those agencies have available data for every month from January 2017 through June 2024. The agencies that do have data for every month since 2017 make up the nationwide sample which as of June 2024 has 304 agencies covering over 76 million people with full data in at least one crime category. The national sample right now covers around 25 percent of the nation’s population and 45 percent of the murders that occur each year.
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