Posted on 10/16/2024 11:04:42 AM PDT by grundle
USA Today’s headline on the FBI’s reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime that fell, but that is not the same as all crime nor is it the only measure of reported crime. So they could have written, the FBI’s measure of reported violent crime fell in 2023. The second error is that they are wrong claiming that this was the second straight year, where an adjustment in the data showed a 4.5% increase in 2022. Originally, the FBI said that violent crime had fallen by 2.1% and now they say it increased by 4.5%. Just like the Bureau of Labor Statistics overestimated the number of jobs created.
Presumably the media was just reading the FBI’s press release and not looking at the actual data, and that may be why the media has ignored these statistics. Shockingly, the FBI’s September press release with the 2023 data doesn’t mention the changes to earlier data and that the original drop in violent crime for 2022 was now an increase. Nor did they mention that the new reported increase in 2022 was larger than the claimed decrease in 2023.
With the adjustments, there is a net increase of 80.029 more violent crimes, 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, and 37,091 more aggravated assaults.
(Excerpt) Read more at crimeresearch.org ...
No reasonable News Correspondent would report accurate facts and figures within 4 years of a Presidential Election.... :-)
I was deliberate.
Sooner or later, all of their numbers require revision.
IT was deliberate.
On purpose.
Gotta blunt that red wave.
How’d they miss it? They didn’t. They just lied about it.
“1,699 murders”
Can somebody please reach out to Martha Raddatz and ask if that number constitutes a “handfull”?
And isn’t it funny all the stats that need revision were “accidentally” wrong in a way that favored the Demscum? Wonder why. /need I?
They honestly forgot that the crime-ridden, big blue cities were part of the U.S. It could happen to anyone.
Starting in May 2020, murders, violent crime and also traffic fatalities jumped 30%-40% - and stayed high, particularly among blacks.
It is called “the George Floyd Effect.”
It confirmed Leftist-DOJ control of independent police forces, and the death of local policing.
Yep. The crime statistics are always ‘revised’ upwards.
FBI has become liberal politicized.
LIAR FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
Mayor Marion Barry was upset that DC was “The Murder Capital” of America. He called in the chief of police and asked where the FBI got their data. The DC police provided it. The mayor redefined murder. If I recall, the victim had to be shot three times. Anything else was suicide. The statistics got instantly better.
Another way the FBI can improve statistics is when the White House calls and says, “the new number is X. Make it so.”
Whoopsie doodle. The non partisan FBI just made an Oopsie is all. Right before the election to help Kamala. They would never lie on purpose. Just ask them.
Has the KGB broke the password on Hunter’s laptop yet?
Multiple reasons:
If a felony charge is plea bargained down to a misdemeanor, it gets reported that way
https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-crime-data-violence-biden-trump-1911383
Plus the FBI changed their reporting system in 2021 (conveniently) and many police departments are not using it, and thus not reporting their crime stats. For example, LAPD and NYPD did not report in 2022, which makes the stats worthless.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/13/fbi-crime-rates-data-gap-nibrs
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