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The Media’s Criminal Misreporting on Crime
Issues & Ingights ^ | 09/17/2024 | Editorial board

Posted on 09/18/2024 6:05:22 AM PDT by thegagline

“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”

That was ABC News’ David Muir “fact checking” Donald Trump during his debate with Kamala Harris.

Two days later, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released the results of its national crime victimization survey, which showed that the number of victims of violent crime was 41% higher in 2023 than in 2020.

There were almost 170,000 more rapes, 300,000 more robberies, 1.4 million more assaults, 300,000 more claims of domestic violence, and almost 400,000 more crimes with a violent weapon.

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And in January, the Council on Criminal Justice, which tracks crimes in 39 cities, found homicide rates were 18% higher in 2023 than in 2019, aggravated assaults up 8%, gun assaults up 32%, and carjackings up 93%.

Meanwhile, polls keep finding that the public thinks crime is getting worse.

But instead of trying to understand the mismatch, the press just treated the public like idiots. ***

Why is the press so insistent on claiming that crime is no big deal?

The reason is simple: Republicans have been tapping the public’s legitimate concerns about crime, blaming soft-on-crime leftists such as Kamala Harris, and promising to turn things around.

*** For example, when the FBI said that crime rates had dropped in the first three months of 2024 compared with the first three months of 2023, the media cheered. Many of the headlines above were based on this report.

But that finding is wildly misleading. It’s based on the number of crimes plugged into the FBI’s “Uniform Crime Reporting” database, which not every police department contributes to – a situation made worse after the FBI changed its reporting system in 2021. ***

(Excerpt) Read more at issuesinsights.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crime; facts; media

1 posted on 09/18/2024 6:05:22 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

ABC was well aware that 30% of the police jurisdictions in the country, including Los Angeles and New York, don’t even report their crime statistics to the FBI. This totally skews their numbers. This has been reported numerous times by multiple mainstream sources.


2 posted on 09/18/2024 6:14:21 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: thegagline

It will be a really small step from, ‘making it a crime to declare false statements’ to ‘being a crime to make unacceptable statements’.
If Harris gets away with the election, saying crime is up could cause you to disappear.


3 posted on 09/18/2024 6:15:53 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: thegagline
That was ABC News’ David Muir “fact checking” Donald Trump during his debate with Kamala Harris.

Maybe just do the next debate at DNC Headquarters, moderated by DNC staff, and cut out the middleman?

4 posted on 09/18/2024 6:17:28 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: thegagline

No statistic released by the Soros paid propaganda machine is credible. Pure gas lighting.


5 posted on 09/18/2024 6:34:31 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: thegagline

Yeah, but those crime figures need to be adjusted to account for the Biden inflation.


6 posted on 09/18/2024 6:48:35 AM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“Maybe just do the next debate at DNC Headquarters, moderated by DNC staff, and cut out the middleman?”

You jest, but... I fear that if the rabid left steals the next election like they did the last one... they will feel no further need to keep up the unbiased media charade of having “fair debates” in the future. So... might as well have any debates, should there be any debates at all, at the DNC HQ, by DNC staff..


7 posted on 09/18/2024 7:01:47 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

8 posted on 09/18/2024 7:33:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: thegagline

If (and I pray, when) Trump wins the next election, the DOJ will change its requirements and demand that all of those high crime areas report their statistics. Thus statistically crime will increase dramatically. With Trump policies, including deporting alien criminals , crime will actually go down but the left’s fraudulence statistics will not show it.


9 posted on 09/18/2024 8:36:16 AM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: circlecity

Those agencies report to their state departments of justice, which then makes the UCR report.

Nearly all of the Part 1 crimes tracked by the Uniform Crime Report system are accounted for.

Other data systems, like the officer fatalities and the NIBS, etc., do not require reporting, and many agencies don’t bother.


10 posted on 09/18/2024 3:06:59 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart!)
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