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The Crime Report, CBS News |
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February 9, 2016 |
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The rise of the crime beat "news nerds" By David J. Krajice |
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David Cay Johnston credits the forerunning work of two former New York Times writers: data pioneer David Burnham, who founded the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, and the late David C. Anderson, who wielded statistics and a social science sensibility to write with nuance and common sense about guns, crime and imprisonment during the 1990s, when those traits were rare. |
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