1930 Research LLC specializes in the often-overlooked step between raw data and usable data. Many organizations, including government agencies, advocacy groups, academic research teams, and legal teams, receive crime and policing data they didn’t collect themselves and struggle to make sense of it. We take that raw, messy data, figure out what it is and what it means, clean it, and deliver something the client can actually use.

We specialize in FBI UCR/NIBRS data and local police administrative data including CAD, RMS, arrest records, and traffic stop data. Past clients include the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (under multiple administrations), the American Civil Liberties Union, and AH Datalytics.

1930 Research LLC was founded by Dr. Jacob Kaplan, a Professional Specialist at Princeton University with a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. Jacob served on the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Subcommittee, holds a federal Public Trust designation, and is the author of A Criminologist’s Guide to R (CRC Press). He has spent over 10 years building and cleaning crime and policing datasets, and his data products have been downloaded 15,000+ times and cited 250+ times.

Our name honors the FBI’s 1930 launch of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the foundation of nearly a century of crime data standardization. We carry that legacy forward.

For a formal summary of our capabilities and past performance, download our Capability Statement. Ready to get started? Contact us at Jacob@1930research.com.