Posted on 10/22/2024 11:03:56 AM PDT by Spktyr
The FBI quietly revised the U.S. crime statistics to show an increase in violent crime.
An investigation by RealClearInvestigations found that the FBI updated its 2022 crime statistics in September, showing that rather than a 2.1% drop in violent crime as originally reported, the United States actually experienced a 4.5% rise in violent crime. The new dataset showed thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.
The more than 6 percentage point change is unprecedented in recent FBI statistic reporting, William & Mary professor Carl Moody told the outlet.
“I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” he said. “There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.”
The only announcement of the change was a single footnote in the 2023 crime statistic report, where the agency acknowledged, “The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023.”
“It is up to the FBI to explain what they have done, and they haven’t explained these large changes,” Justec Research President Thomas Marvell added.
The FBI’s September press release doesn’t note the change in crime statistics.
According to crimeresearch.org, the revised FBI statistics show a net increase of 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, and 37,091 more aggravated assaults from 2021 to 2022. Some figures from 2021 were decreased.
The increase was recorded despite the fact that data still weren’t collected from some of the most violent precincts.
After the FBI changed the way it collects national crime data in 2021, some major police departments, such as those in New York City and Los Angeles, haven’t turned over their crime data.
The FBI discloses now that its data are “based on data received from 13,719 of 19,268 law enforcement agencies in the country.”
The update is politically charged, as Democrats have liberally cited the previous numbers showing a decrease in crime as evidence that former President Donald Trump’s and Republicans’ concern over rising crime is false.
During the September presidential debate, Trump sparred with the moderator after the latter pointed to FBI statistics to show that violent crime had decreased for several years in a row, something the new statistics found to be definitively false.
And that was only for 2022.
Time to broadcast this far and wide, I think.
Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-LSE9sRCA
It must be “seasonally adjusted”.
I bet the FBI does not include their own crimes.
Our feral government lies to us 24x7x365. We need to fire the entire federal bureaucracy.
The FBI is thoroughly corrupt. It needs to be cleaned out. But even if Trump wins and the GOP takes both houses of Congress, no one will have the balls to do it.
They misplaced 2000 murders.
The explanation is in the poster’s attachments:
“Another way of looking at these numbers is that the FBI overcounted the number of murders in 2021 by 1,074 and undercounted the number in 2022 by 625, again a gap of 1,699. Similarly, the FBI overcounted the number of violent reported violent crimes in 2021 by 55,786 and undercounted the number in 2022 by 24,243, again a gap of 80,029.
The percent changes in the various crime rates are dramatic.”
You cannot trust anything the FBI or any other government agency or department puts out.
They have become entirely political.
They tell the story which helps those in power and goes with the current of time.
It would be even higher than that if liberal D.A,’s, A.G.’s, etc. weren’t reducing the seriousness of the crimes committed, from felonies to misdemeanors, or dismissing charges for violent crimes altogether. A crime doesn’t become a statistic if there isn’t a record of that crime.
It’s to the point where I just assume the CIA/FBI/DOJ are lying to me if I see a press release from one of them. DC needs a good flush, and hold the lever down until all the POS’s disappear in the vortex
The top echelon of marxists in the FBI see the Trump Train coming down the railroad track and are trying buy an ounce or two of sympathy from Trump.
Remember, this was used to “fact check” Trump during the Kamala debate.
Then, weeks later, “quietly update.”
Dem fraud continues.
They also cooked the books on inflation. It’s obviously higher than claimed. Just go to the grocery store or buy a tank of gas!
You can never “trust the FBI.”
They lie with impunity.
“I bet the FBI does not include their own crimes.”
Gasp, that would drive the numbers off of the charts.
Wow, in modern times, the old “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition” has morphed into “No one respects the leftist gubmit.”
I posted this data on my Nextdoor site and was accused of quoting from “untruthful” right wing news sites. Hahahaha
TELL DAVID MUIR.
Oh, let’s not do it quietly! Blow that horn! As usual, Trump was right, and Harris and the “moderator” were lying in the debate.
Nextdoor seems to be mostly inhabited by nosy left wing senior Karens anyway.
If you go to the original article I linked, it has links to citations and such.
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