"criminal data" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it when referring to records that document criminal activity, for example: The police department stored files containing criminal data on the suspects.
Analysts questioned the criminal data, particularly homicides classified as related to organized crime.
This month, the service said it would give the F.B.I. the names of 314,000 people who have disappeared, to go into a national criminal data base.
But some critics of putting criminal data online say the Internet will scare people needlessly, lead to retributive violence, and, as a result, create more sex crimes.
Many large-scale criminal data thefts were made either easier or more damaging because data wasn't encrypted: Target, T.J. Maxx, Heartland Payment Systems, and so on.
The idea that community governments should have direct access to each other's criminal data bases is also running up against different data protection systems and laws.
A bill introduced by Representative Bobby Scott, a Democrat of Virginia, would fix this problem by requiring the F.B.I. to verify and correct criminal data before issuing the background check for employment purposes.
During their inspection of your laptop, the authorities will disregard files that are not germane to their investigation, says Rosenzweig, explaining that the official policy is to "flush all non-criminal data".
There's also potentially significant missed opportunities through not specifically addressing criminal justice data in detail: police data is opening, but court records (and detailed, granular sentencing information) lags significantly behind the rest of the UK government.
In addition to criminal incident data, most agencies can also acquire spatial information from geographic information systems (GIS) and demographic and economic data from the census.
As we have repeatedly warned, politicians citing criminal justice data to make a point should be wary of how they are presenting data.
