Posted on 10/17/2024 5:25:12 AM PDT by george76
Another leftist lie has been debunked, but what is interesting about this episode is that Americans were never believing it in the first place. Over recent years, Democrats have responded to criticism about their soft approach to criminal activity by arguing that violent crime has dropped.
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FBI stealth-edited their crime numbers and now shows that violent crime has actually increased. This isn’t a huge surprise to people who don’t live in the lofty ivory towers in which progressives have shut themselves off from the regular world. But there are indications that this lie was never working in the first place.
Real Clear Investigations published a report stating that the FBI quietly revised its 2022 crime data which originally showed a 2.1 percent decline in violent crime. Now, it shows a 4.5 percent increase in violent criminal activity, which includes thousands more incidents than it did at first.
This revelation not only raises doubts about crime data reporting, but also shows that the government and allies were at best wrong about the facts on the ground. At worst, they deliberately sought to deceive Americans into a false sense of security that might motivate them to vote for Democrats in the upcoming elections.
... It also couldn't be ignored that around 40 percent of police departments were no longer even sharing crime data with the FBI. That left the bureau increasingly relying on a questionable system of estimation to produce its published crime rates.
The FBI’s crime stats revisions reveal how much guesswork is involved in even the “final” numbers often seized on by politicians. The FBI doesn’t simply count reported crimes. Instead, it offers estimates by extrapolating data from police departments that report only partial-year data. The Bureau also makes estimates for cities that report no data. The FBI’s method of generating these estimates changes over time, and it affects the figures they report.
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the American public is not buying what Democrats are selling.
A Gallup poll conducted between March 1 and 20 this year found that 26 percent of Americans worry about crime and violence a “fair amount.” About 53 percent indicated they worry about crime a “great deal.” Only 21 percent said they worried about it “not at all” or “only a little.”
This means that 79 percent of Americans are concerned about violent crime in their communities.
Apparently, most Americans never believed crime was decreasing in the first place.
There is also the rapidly increasing rate of gun ownership to consider. A study published in September showed that more Americans are purchasing firearms and improving their home security systems over fears of violent crime.
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The survey showed that almost a quarter of Americans (23 percent) report that they or a neighbor has been the victim of break-ins. This has led many to question whether local or state law enforcement agencies can protect them.
About 46 percent of respondents believe that neither local government nor police are doing enough to shield their communities from violent and property crimes. This has prompted many to take matters into their own hands, with 29 percent having beefed up their home security systems in the past year and 25 percent planning to do so in the future.
The increased worries over home security have also brought about behavioral changes. Researchers found that 26 percent of Americans have considered relocating because of safety concerns. Gen Zers (49 percent) and urban dwellers (39 percent) being among the most likely to entertain this idea.
However, one aspect the report did not discuss was how fears over crime have driven sharp increases in gun ownership, with many Americans becoming first-time gun owners.
A University of Michigan study showed that 79 percent of gun owners cited personal protection as the main reason for owning guns.
Gun ownership has even increased among liberals, who would normally be expected to eschew the keeping and bearing of arms.
A 2022 survey from NORC at the University of Chicago found that 29 percent of Democrats or Democrat-leaning respondents indicated they have a gun in their home, up from 22 percent in 2010. For Republicans, gun ownership was higher, with 55 percent reporting having a firearm at home in 2022. But the most striking detail is that since 2020, more than half of new Democratic gun buyers were first-time owners, according to a survey by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions cited by the Wall Street Journal report.
If Democrats were successful in deceiving the public into believing crime isn’t a big issue, Gallup’s data would look quite different. Additionally, there would not be such a massive increase in gun ownership – especially among those who typically favor more restrictions on gun ownership.
Lying about crime was never going to be a viable strategy. When people can clearly see what is happening in their communities, no amount of gaslighting is going to make a difference. Crime will definitely be a priority among voters in the upcoming elections and if the data is any indication, Democrats are going to have to take a different approach to crime instead of simply telling falsehoods about it.
I note also that a month or two ago they revised their job numbers down eliminating 800k jobs Biden claimed to have created. Don’t believe any of these government numbers, especially on inflation.
Bingo. It’s interesting how the bureaucracies just plod on as though they are still believed after being exposed on all of the lies and manipulation of data.
As a Data Analyst, I reviewed the study that said illegals commit less crime than citizens. The study counted felons in Texas prisons and then compared that to population percentages.
But to identify illegals they used prison records that only showed Repeat Offenders.
The Study merely proved there were move citizen 1st offenders in Texas Prisons than Illegal Immigrant Repeat Offenders.
Why did congress award the fbi with a several billion dollar new “campus” when they lie and obfuscate so regularly. Liars should not be rewarded.
It’s more like SHOW.
Democrats lie in 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place.
Really wherever they are.
Actually it’s more like a participation badge. If they particpated at all, they lied.
“Researchers found that 26 percent of Americans have considered relocating because of safety concerns.”
Moving won’t help much. It will follow. I live in a rural small town and we’re getting an increase in crime. Mostly petty stuff like catalytic converter thefts but a police car was set on fire last year.
6.6 % swing
That is ALOT in the world of statistics
My city is a corrupt bastian of leftwing voters and policy.
It is becoming unlivable. I love how the news media doesn’t report the crimes (many), and I have to rely on an alternate site to know which areas are death traps.
Even on non-political boards that was greeted with howls of laughter and those who tried to push it were never taken seriously again.
Some people tried de-bunking but most did not bother.
The Big Lie was too blatant.
gee... I’m shocked. Any and all statistics from the government are fake or manipulated.... from the President on down to the lowest janitor on a federal property in Alaska...
The FBI (Dept of Justice) lying about crime stats...just like most “urban” police departments that cook the books. No crime recorded or accurately reported.... then the crime didn’t happen. Burglary, armed robbery, assault, battery, car theft, petty theft.....all are just statistical errors in order to get pay raises or agendas pushed.
SEC.... crimes are pursued depending on who DIDN’T get paid off. “Earnings” are fake or manipulated with creative accounting rules (Good will,quarterly earnings reported, debt, asset valuations, depreciation) making company valuations “almost” impossible to calculate...
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) giving mythical tales of “inflation”, “jobs created”, bankruptcy filings.... and any other number that is subject to accounting interpretation.
EPA, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and United Nations or the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) cook the numbers and computer models to make fake global cooling, warming, or change into existential threats.
Department of Energy with it’s charade of oil scarcity and lack of carbon for energy.
Department of Interior lying about it’s management of public lands and minerals, national parks, and wildlife refuges and upholds Federal trust responsibilities to Indian tribes and Native Alaskans. Gotta keep the oil, natural gas and rare earth metals under control doncha know..... and the “Native Americans” are being cared for ever so lovingly by our Federal mommies.
Department of Agriculture in the pocket of agri-business and modification of food supply in order to easily create famine if needed.
Department of Health and Human Services.... doing a bang up job riding heard on it’s responsibilities...Health care, Safety of medications and food, Research (you know what), Privacy, Religious Freedom, and Discrimination.... cuz that’s what government bureaucrats are great at monitoring....hahahahah
and on and on... it’s all bullsh#t in order to control the proles and keep us in line.
Have children, control what they learn and mock everything our government shovels out the door. Try to follow the beliefs of your faith.
In order to know what and who your enemy is.... just look at the news, popular culture and university “studies” or famous court jester or gladiator....
Anything they champion, any “great” discovery is tainted by the underlying FACT.....they hate you (and me), they hate the idea of the United States of America and our Bill of Rights and Constitution.
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