Posted on 10/03/2024 6:59:55 PM PDT by JohnRLott
This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024.
“Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official statement.
Yet, with crime a central issue in this year’s election, he and the mainstream media have carefully ignored evidence that the FBI may be fudging its numbers — much like the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics massively overestimated the number of jobs created during the Biden-Harris administration
Last month, new FBI data showed that reported serious violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) fell by 3.5% in 2023.
But at the same time — and much more quietly — the FBI revised its earlier data for 2022, turning a reported decrease into a worrisome increase in violent crime.
Last year, the media trumpeted the FBI’s claim that reported violent crime had fallen in 2022 by 2.1%.
But now the FBI admits that violent crime rose in 2022 instead, by 4.5% — off by 6.6 percentage points.
These updated numbers resulted in a net increase in 2022 over 2021 of 80,029 violent crimes: 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies and 37,091 aggravated assaults.
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In 2021 the FBI redid the collection system on crimes. A good percentage of the police departments did use this method and of course the percentage of crimes was down. Even last year there still was a good percent of the police departments still not using the new method. So, the actual crimes are still higher than reported.
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If the FBI self reported, crime stats would be off the charts.
Fire every single crooked bastard in the FIB. Burn the building. And pee on the ashes. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that can be redeemed with that evil corrupt gestapo organization. Everyone from the janitor to Merrick is crooked.
I’m sure violent crime rose by much more than what they’re admitting.
12 Years ago I got caught for DUI and was guilty and in the class of convicted folks was an fbi agent.
He was as guilty as I was but he was pissed that the local cops arrested him {after he tried to bully his way out with his fbi creds}.
He blew 1.8 which was more than double the .8 dui number, but he felt he was entitled to walk.
He was so obnoxious that everyone in the group of guilty dui dummies, hated this guy so much, that for the entire process of many weeks, no one would even say hello to this creep.
I never want to hear about the "rank and file" heroes of the fbi, they are all tainted and corrupt {and the few that are not, turn a blind eye to the crooks}.
F'em all.
There is so much anti-Biden coming out from the FBI, I think the honest FBI agents know Trump is going to win; so they can effectively tell Wray to go ‘F’ himself.
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