Current Status: A national officer misconduct database was mandated by Executive Order 14074 (2022) for inter-agency use, but no public database has been launched as of July 2025.
Note: Earlier reports suggested NLEAD was removed, but this has been corrected - the database was never made publicly available.
What happened: The FBI's standalone Hate Crime Statistics Explorer was deprecated in 2022. Hate crime data are still available through the Crime Data Explorer, but reporting is incomplete due to the NIBRS transition.
Impact: Researchers, journalists, and advocacy organizations lost easy access to hate crime trend analysis and geographic breakdowns that were previously available through the dedicated portal.
What happened: In 2021, the FBI ended its traditional annual "Crime in the United States" tables, leaving a data gap that year. Partial state-level crime data has since returned via the Crime Data Explorer.
Ongoing Issues: The transition to NIBRS has created inconsistencies in data availability and comparability across jurisdictions and time periods.
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