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Deb Haaland: “BIA's Office of Justice Services (OJS) reports different data to both FBI and the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ)…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2019
BIA's Office of Justice Services (OJS) reports different data to both FBI and the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) crime databases--violent crimes resulting in death get sent over to the FBI, while missing persons data are sent to NIJ.
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Deb Haaland
Democratic · New Mexico

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Haaland critiques the inefficiency of data reporting for violent crimes and missing persons.

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