The FBI secretly revised its crime reduction report for 2022, the second full year of the Biden/Harris administration, to show that violent crime actually increased by 4.5 percent that year.
June 11, 2024, President Joe Biden boastedfalsely claimed that his and Harris' policies reduced crime.
The year before I took office, the murder rate recorded the highest increase in history. Last year saw the largest drop in homicides in (inaudible) history. (Applause) And those interest rates continue to fall faster than ever. Last year had one of the lowest rates for all violent crimes in nearly 50 years. Murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery all fell sharply, along with robbery and property crimes.
On June 24, 2024, Breitbart News “fact-checked” an FBI report showing a decline in crime in 2022, citing information from thousands of police precincts that do not report crime data. pointed out that it was missing.
Other news organizations similarly condemned the FBI report, and now, months later, federal authorities have corrected the record.
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October 16, 2024, Real Clear Investigations noticed:
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%. It quickly became, and continues to be, a talking point for Democrats against Donald Trump's claims that crime is surging.
However, the FBI quietly revised that number and released new data showing a 4.5% increase in violent crime in 2022. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults.
The latest FBI data for 2022 shows 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, more than 33,000 more robberies and 37,000 more aggravated assaults than originally reported.
Professor Carl Moody, a criminology researcher at the College of William and Mary, said that at no other time in the 21st century has the FBI had to correct crime reports to this extent.
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“We looked at the data on total violent crimes from 2004 to 2022, and there was no correction from 2004 to 2015, and a small change of less than 1 percent from 2016 to 2020,” Moody said. said. Big changes in 2021 and 2022 make it difficult to trust FBI data without further explanation. ”
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