OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
12:14 PM – Wednesday, October 16, 2024
A new report highlights how the FBI under the Biden administration changed its 2022 crime statistics to reflect an increase in violent crime, after initially claiming crime was down.
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The FBI has “quietly” updated its 2022 crime statistics to reflect a 4.5% increase in violent crimes, including hundreds more murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults, according to findings released Wednesday. did. real clear survey (RCI).
The latest figures for 2022 acknowledge an increase of 80,029 violent crimes compared to 2021.
“This FBI report is surprising because it does not say that violent crimes in 2022 increased significantly over previous reports, nor does it explain why new crime rates are so high. And they haven't issued a press release about this major revision,'' said David Mustard, a professor at the University of Georgia who has researched crime extensively. R.C.I.
“This lack of transparency undermines the FBI's credibility.”
The FBI previously claimed that violent crime was down 2.1% when it released its 2022 “final” crime data in September 2023.
According to RCIThey also predicted a 3.5% decline in violent crime in 2023, which means it's actually only 1.6% based on the latest data for 2022.
The reported violent crime rate increased by 4.1% in 2023, according to the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2023 National Crime Victimization Survey. The survey interviews 240,000 people each year about their personal experiences.
Democrats running for president used the FBI's original 2022 crime statistics to refute former President Donald Trump's claims that crime is on the rise, but those statistics are now inaccurate. It turns out that.
The data changes were not included in the FBI's September 2024 news statement. RCI From a mysterious link on the FBI website that says, “2022 violent crime rates have been updated for inclusion in CIUS for 2023.”
The fact that the numbers have increased is not even mentioned. According to RCIthe only way to detect tampering is to download the FBI's latest crime statistics and compare it to information released last year.
“I looked at data on the total number of violent crimes from 2004 to 2022,” said Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William & Mary who specializes in criminology. “From 2004 to 2015 there was no revision, and from 2016 to 2020 there was a small change of less than 1 percent.
“The major changes in 2021 and 2022 make it difficult to trust FBI data without further explanation.”
Additionally, Dr. Thomas Marvel, president of Justec Research in Williamsburg, Virginia, asked the FBI to further explain the changes.
“It's up to the FBI to explain what they did, but the FBI hasn't explained these major changes,” Marvel said. R.C.I.
The Trump campaign also responded by emphasizing this sly amendment.
“A new report reveals that the FBI secretly updated crime data to show that violent crime did not decrease by 2.1% in 2022, but instead increased by 4.5% in 2022. ” Democrats continue to lie by claiming that crime is under control under Kamala Harris. She will make matters worse by defunding the police agenda. When the FBI first released its 2022 “final” crime data in September 2023, it reported that the national violent crime rate had decreased by 2.1%. “This quickly became, and continues to be, a Democratic talking point to counter Donald Trump's claims that crime is skyrocketing,” the Trump-Vance campaign said.
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