Note the gap in 2005. Over a thousand murders were added in 2024.
Posted on 11/04/2024 4:51:06 AM PST by marktwain
The FBI has quietly changed 20 years of homicide data from 2004 to 2023. Professor John Lott has published an article showing the FBI’s revised homicide data for 2022 and 2023. The previous numbers fed Biden/Harris administration talking points.
A close look at the data shows the FBI “adjusted” the homicide data from the last two decades, not just the last two years. The largest adjustment outside of 2021 and 2022 happened to the data from 2005. As of 2006, the total number of homicides reported by the FBI for 2005 was 16,740 for 2005 and 17,034 for 2006. In 2019, the numbers were reported as 16,740 and 17,309. As of 2024, the numbers were adjusted to 17,750 (added 1,010) for 2005 and 17,241 (dropped 68) for 2006.
It is reasonable for homicide numbers to be adjusted upwards for a few years after the initial reporting. Some reports may come in late. Some investigations may show a crime was a homicide instead of a suicide. People who were severely wounded may die. It is harder to see how the number of homicides decreases. Perhaps dates were misreported. The increase of over a thousand homicides in one year should be explained.
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These tables contain statistics for the entire United States. Because not all law enforcement agencies provide data for complete reporting periods,
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Note the gap in 2005. Over a thousand murders were added in 2024.
“What happened with the numbers....?”
Jao and the Komrade?
Not worried about that so much, but did they alter the statistics by race?
I’m sure the government would like John Lott to go away. He’s been a thorn in their side for a long time.
From 2008 to 2016 it’s not adjusted much at all.
And look, regardless of adjustment, 2020 has a massive increase with little change after!
Even if it is not a large change, why would numbers be changed at all from over a decade ago?
Lott should be part of a new Trump administration, if he wins.
The FBI, our KGB wannabes, is not to be believed in anything it says or produces.
btt
They always have.
When they are looking at victims, the separate whites and latinos/hispanics to reduce white victim numbers. When they are looking at perps, they combine whites and hispanics to inflate white numbers.
None of these government agencies can be trusted to report their own numbers.
Keeping my fingers crossed…🙂
Put him in charge of the FBI for a year or two...
The law should be set to say that any and all federal agency adjustments of any and all data they publicly report must be accompanied with detail explanations including how and why any adjustment is made, and no agency can quit publicly reporting any data that has been publiicly reported before.
FBI aka FIB
I could imagine some late info coming in. Cold cases happen, sometimes involving discovering the victim at all. Went from missing to dead, etc.
But large changes rather distant don’t seem likely.
The chart shows a drop during the Obama years. How much of that is due to fake statistics?
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