More than 100 Missouri law enforcement agencies failed to provide 2021 crime data to the FBI after it switched to a new crime statistics tracking system.
Nationwide, 2 of every 5 law enforcement agencies filed no crime data for 2021. In Missouri, 113 agencies filed no data, and another 165 provided only partial data, according to The Marshall Project, a nonprofit group that reports on criminal justice issues. The Marshall Project data indicates 314 Missouri agencies provided a full 12 months of crime reports.
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