Part 2 of 2 HENRIETTA – Finding data to determine whether rising or falling crime is a reason to support or oppose the proposed Ray County jail tax on the Aug. 2 ballot proved close to pointless. But not impossible. This newspaper requested Uniform Crime Reporting numbers from the Ray County Sheriff’s Office about eight weeks ago. Undersheriff Steve Mendoza several weeks later said staff looked, but could not find those records or a lot of things after the previous administration had left office Dec. 31. The FBI requests Uniform Crime Reporting, or UCR, numbers for research purposes from every county in the nation. When the sheriff’s staff could not provide the numbers for this county, this newspaper sought the information based on the FBI’s annual publication of UCR data, with a focus on violent crime. The effort produced results, but only for 2012 through 2017. The FBI apparently did not receive Ray County’s numbers for 2018 and 2019. But the FBI for those years reported numbers…