New Yorkers have access to mountains of statistics, updated weekly, about crimes committed in New York City and what happens to the people accused of committing them. Policymakers and the general public, however, lack the data necessary to track what happens to crime victims. It’s time that changed.
An important national statistic mostly unknown outside criminal justice circles is that more than half of all crimes are not reported to the police. This critical finding has been consistent since 1973, when the federal government first launched the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). This household survey asks whether individuals were victims of crime and if so, whether they reported the crime to the police. It also asks what support victims received following their victimization, whether they accessed victim services and, for those who did not report the crime, why they chose not to.
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