Authors of FBI Report on Public Shootings Admit “Our Data Is Imperfect”

By GunNews Contributor

For months I had tried getting a response from the Department of Justice and the authors of a FBI report on “active shooters” regarding errors that the CPRC had found. I then published a research in the March 2015 issue of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. That finally got a response from two of the FBI study’s authors, Pete Blair and M. Hunter Martaindale, last week. Jason Riley’s article in the Wall Street Journal describes their response:

. . . But late last week, J. Pete Blair and M. Hunter Martaindale, two academics at Texas State University who co-authored the FBI report, acknowledged that “our data is imperfect.” They said that the news media “got it wrong” last year when they “mistakenly reported mass shootings were on the rise.”

Read the rest of the article from John Lott’s Website.

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