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BGleason22 posted...

Did a quick google search and saw Florida at #29 in the nation in gun related deaths per capita.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/07/05/desantis-florida-crime-claims-based-incomplete-data-record-show/

Claiming that Florida is unsafe is a total farce, DeSantis said. I mean, are you kidding me? You look at cities around this country, they are awash in crime. In Florida, our crime rate is at a 50-year low.

But his statementrests on patchy, incomplete crime data. About half of the agencies that police more than 40% of the states population are missing from figures the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) used for a state-wide estimation.

Participation in national data collection is even lower. In Florida, only 49 agencies, representing less than 8% of police departments, were included in an FBI federal database last year, according to a Marshall Project analysis. This means more than 500 police departments in Florida including many of the largest agencies, like the Miami Police Department, the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office and the St. Petersburg Police Department are missing from the national context. Floridas participation rate is the lowest of any state in the country.