Happy days are here again...only 131 are dead again...so lets sing a song of cheer again...happy days are here again! /s
“Happy days are here again...only 131 are dead again...so lets sing a song of cheer again...happy days are here again! /s”
As I recall, Mayor Marion Barry didn’t like the murder rate in DC as it made him look bad. When he inquired, he found out that the numbers were self-reported by the local cops to the FBI, which was keeping the statistics. He simply ordered the DC cops to re-define what murder was. Lots of bullet riddled corpses became suicides. Even if they’d been shot twice in the head.
The point is, you can’t trust what the government tells you unless you have some independent verification.