Reply #176: I tend to go with the FBI, CDC, BJS..

[X_Digger]

I know where you got that quote, and the reason it's wrong now is that it's out of date.

WISQARS lets you roll your own stats, with TONS of criteria, breaking down for age group, race, geography. The only downside to WISQARS is that it's always about three years behind (they wait two years to get final disposition of deaths, and then it takes about a year to collate the data into their website.)

The FBI's UCR (Uniform Crime Report) is another great source, direct from the horse's mouth, as it were, since police departments report incidents directly to them.

The BJS correlates the FBI's UCR data, along with the CDC's WISQARS, and throws in the NCVS (National Crime Victim Survey).

Those are the authoritative sources I use that usually have up-to-date numbers. Not studies from the 90's, or reports by the UN that don't compare apples to apples between countries. True, there are a lot of different stats out there, but the 'golden source' really are the ones I mentioned (CDC, FBI).