FBI report: Violent crime up in Bay Area, California in 2012

Barry Krisberg quoted in San Jose Mercury News, September 16, 2013

Barry Krisberg … said the FBI data doesn’t mean much. He noted factors such as a law enforcement agency dropping out of the voluntary reporting system or a reworked definition of a crime can skew statistics. “People are trying to make much out of a one-year trend,” Krisberg said. “But there are so many problems in regards to the data.”