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Thanks so much for joining us.

I appreciate you having me on. Okay, so I think a key to the Wall Street

Journal piece is in which you explain the sort of disparity between what's being reported out there

is that there is a difference between the FBI uniform crime reporting and the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey.

Nick, continue to explain to start off with why there's a contrast there and the difference between these two measures.

Right. Well, as you say, there are two measures of crime. One is the FBI Uniform Crime

Reports. Those are crimes reported to police and then the police

departments around the country send that information on a number of crimes

reported to them to the FBI.

So the FBI is just counting up

the number of reported crimes.

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