Is crime increasing or decreasing? Do police efforts reduce crime? Are probability-based identification technologies helping in finding and convicting the right suspects? These important questions all depend on production and deployment of statistical data. We will ask whether, where, and by whom contestations around the production and usage of crime statistics are being made, how the records are constructed and structured, what they contain, how they are accessed and their contents analyzed, and how they are being applied in policy formation and policy learning contexts.