Cracking the Crime Stats

Welcome to another episode of the IRE Radio Podcast. On this week’s episode we’re talking about crime – everything from fact-checking police stats to building databases to track gun violence. Here’s the lineup: - Michael Berens of The Seattle Times gets things started with a story about an odd beam of light, some dead rabbits and a police chopper. - Debra Juarez, news director at NBC 5 Chicago, talks about the ethics of naming suspects involved in a prostitution sting. - Steve Thompson of the Dallas Morning News and Ben Poston of the Los Angeles Times explain how to spot red flags in crime stat data. - David Fallis of the Washington Post walks through how he combined two data sets to track down the sources of guns used in crimes.