Providing and sharing information that prepare criminal justice professionals to better do their jobs as well as serve the public is at the heart of data-driven policing. The four data collection efforts that fall within the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program enable policymakers, law enforcement leaders, researchers, and the public to better understand trends in offenses and crime, protect and educate communities, and implement change. Wit...

Since the 2019 Foundations for Evidence Based Policy Making Act became law, federal agency success in meeting the embedded mandate to inventory and catalog all of their data continues to achieve mixed results. It doesn't have to be that way. Automating these processes and democratizing data for internal and public facing use is within reach now. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the largest federal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Dep...