President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that crime is far worse than government officials are willing to admit, especially in cities run by Democrats.
Democratic operatives and liberal media outlets have argued that the opposite is true, citing incomplete FBI data showing that violent crime has declined during the first two years of the Biden-Harris administration.
Looks like Trump was right.
said Time magazine said, “The FBI fabricated the numbers,'' and perhaps he was proposed Just as he said during the second presidential debate that the FBI's data was “fraudulent,” he appears to have been right about the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' fake employment statistics.
Crime Prevention Research Center
recently reported The FBI secretly changed the content. crime data 2022 — The year when cities like Phoenix, New York City and Los Angeles take center stage. Could not submit crime data.
Although the department initially claimed that violent crime fell by 2.1% that year;
USA Today Publications such as have been fully exploited to the benefit of Democratic Party officials. The FBI has since adjusted its statistics to reflect that violent crime actually increased by at least 4.5%.
“Now we know the truth.”
In its Sept. 23 report, the FBI did not bother to highlight the changes that would destroy this story.
press release About national crime statistics.
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noticed This change was only mentioned cryptically in a footnote in September. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Report For 2023 crimes, it states, “2022 violent crime rates have been updated for inclusion in CIUS for 2023.”
According to the CPRC, this adjustment resulted in a “net increase of 80,29 violent crimes, 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults.”
“Here you go.”
answered Congressman Dan Bishop (RN.C.).
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (California)
answered In response to the FBI's quiet correction, he said, “You'll never believe it. The FBI's report is wrong and violent crime is not actually decreasing.”
“This is why the regime wants to censor 'disinformation and misinformation.'
tweeted Aaron McIntyrea podcast host and columnist for Blaze Media. “Our institutions now routinely lie for political gain.”
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I wrote“They want to give the illusion that the city is safe, but now we know the truth.”
“We looked at data on the total number of violent crimes from 2004 to 2022,” Carl Moody, professor of economics at the College of William and Mary and director of research at CPRC, told RealClear Investigations. “From 2004 to 2015 there was no revision, and from 2016 to 2020 there was a small change of less than 1 percent. There are large changes in 2021 and 2022 with no specific explanation, so trust the FBI data. It makes it difficult.”
RealClearInvestigations suggested the FBI did not respond to “repeated requests for comment.”
By other measures, things actually appear to be much worse than the FBI and media are making them out to be, but this is also consistent with President Trump's sense of how bad things are. We are doing so.
CPRC Chairman John Lott Jr. told Blaze Media Co-Founder: glenn beck “There are two measures we take when it comes to crime, and the media only looks at one measure and doesn't seem to understand what they're measuring,” he said last month.
“So those two metrics are FBI metrics for crimes reported to law enforcement,” Lott continued. “And then there's a measure of the Bureau of Justice Statistics called the National Crime Victimization Data, which measures the total amount of crime, including reported and unreported crimes. Prior to 2020, these two numbers usually went up and down together. But since 2020, they've been going in opposite directions.
Lott said, for example, in 2022, when the FBI initially claimed violent crime had fallen by just over 2%, the National Crime Victimization Survey showed that Reflecting large spikes The violent victimization rate increased from 16.5 per 1,000 victims in 2021 to 23.5 per 1,000 victims in 2022.
Lott said this is “the largest percentage increase we've ever seen.”
The NCVS does not measure homicides, although the FBI says violent crimes qualify under the Biden-Harris administration. reportedly It shows that violent crime increased by 55% between 2020 and 2023.
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