The FBI tracks every crime in America. Except the ones that never get reported.
Police reporting to the FBI is voluntary. Hundreds of agencies — including major metropolitan departments — have stopped submitting data. America deserves accurate data about itself. We track what's missing.
How this works
Open · Auditable · ContinuousFBI Crime Data Explorer
We pull directly from the FBI's official Crime Data Explorer API for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, covering eight major offense categories from 1985 to present.
Automated weekly scrape
An automated process checks the FBI's data daily and pulls fresh records every Monday morning. Every scrape is logged, timestamped, and publicly auditable.
Gap detection
When agencies stop reporting, we flag them. When agencies issue press releases that conflict with their FBI submissions, that becomes a matter of public record.
The State of American Crime
Trailing 12 months · Homicides per 100kEvery state, every month
View all states →When a police department stops reporting, that's the story.
FBI reporting is voluntary. After the bureau retired its old SRS system in 2021 and switched fully to NIBRS, many large agencies failed to make the transition — and have not submitted national crime data since. Some agencies issue self-reported numbers in press releases while sending nothing to the FBI. This site exists to show both.
Agency-level gap tracking is in development.