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Adjust NIBRS bulk download menus #1306

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To handle the fact that Colorado started submitting NIBRS data in 1992 but then stopped for 1995 and 1996 I added a no-data-years optional array to the UCR program participation data. These years are not included in the year drop down for bulk NIBRS downloads.

Closes 18F/crime-data-explorer#337

This doesn't really mess up any of our other views but does make the introduction text under "Incident details" less accurate. For example, Colorado did not submit incident details/NIBRS data for 1995 or 1996 but if the range 1995-2016 is selected then the sentence reads as follows:

There were 49,190 individual robbery incidents reported to the FBI in Colorado between 1995 and 2016 by 260 law enforcement agencies reporting data.

Should we update that view to be more accurate? For example, we could say:

There were 49,190 individual robbery incidents reported to the FBI in Colorado between 1995 and 2016 by 260 law enforcement agencies reporting data. Colorado did not submit incident details in 1995 or 1996.

To handle the fact that Colorado started submitting
NIBRS data in 1992 but then stopped for 1995 and 1996
I added a no-data-years optional array to the UCR
program participation data. These years are not
included in the year drop down for bulk NIBRS
downloads.
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@jeremiak i like your suggestion, although i would suggest rephrasing "incident details" as either "NIBRS data, or incident data."

While I think it is helpful to explain the time range behind the incident details presented in the Explorer, I wonder if its going to confuse people when we say "this state didn't report incident data for these years" but the trend line on the first half of the page shows an uninterrupted trend. This goes back to some (maybe most?) users won't understand the differences between data types powering the Explorer view.

It's something to test...

@jeremiak jeremiak requested a review from jpwentz December 21, 2017 17:54
@jpwentz jpwentz merged commit f23131c into master Dec 21, 2017
@jeremiak jeremiak deleted the jk-nibrs-gaps branch December 21, 2017 19:35
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