Posted on 10/16/2024 6:13:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.
But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.
The Bureau – which has been at the center of partisan storms – made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release.
RCI discovered the change through a cryptic reference on the FBI website that states: “The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023.” But there is no mention that the numbers increased. One only sees the change by downloading the FBI’s new crime data and comparing it to the file released last year.
After the FBI released its new crime data in September, a USA Today headline read: “Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.”
It’s been over three weeks since the FBI released the revised data. The Bureau’s lack of acknowledgment or explanation about the significant change concerns researchers.
“I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William & Mary who specializes in studying crime, told RealClearInvestigations. “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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
Funny that the huge changes to the data happened in 2021 and 2022. I wonder what happened then?
“Unexpectedly…”
More election interference by the intelligence agencies.
I hope pres Trump will cite this and note that the fbi tried to downplay the real numbers just to make him look bad!
The left will blame it on pres Trump and covid causing the increase, claiming that their seventh son Biden “inherited “ the problem.
Actually Orwellian. Lowered chocoate rations increased.....
No stat released by the Biden admin is credible. Obama cooked the books in the same way.
...and we have always been at war with Eurasia.
Have they cracked the password on the laptop yet?
Yup...violent crime’s way down. Of course they didn’t include any numbers from NYC...LA...Chicago...Atlanta...Baltimore...Dallas...
“ make it difficult to trust the FBI data.”
I will never willingly speak to an FBI agent. If I find myself on a jury where the FBI was involved I will vote to acquit
Period.
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Another example showing the increase in the weaponization of the FBI and its director by the Demonicrats.
CRIME IS DOWN!
CRIME IS DOWN!
CRIME IS DOWN!
CRIME IS DOWN!
CRIME IS DOWN!
CRIME IS DOWN!
CRIME IS DOWN!
CRIME IS DOWN!
oops... crime is actually up.
LET’S TALK ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS!
War is peace.
Less is more....
Just in time for the election! A new Defense Department directive spells out the scenarios whereby the Defense Secretary can put US troops on US soil in situations where lethal force may be required.
The perfect storm. The DNC is facing legal challenges and calls for prosecution of Pelosi and others for Insider Trading, J6, and their “Reconstruction Bank for Ukriane” activities, all of which deserve special prosecutors.
This may be the last Presidential cycle where abortion is in the top ten issues with women. Soon it will be accepted as a state issue, not Federal and not for Presidents - maybe it will take 8 years, but it will certainly wane.
At least we are encouraged daily to hate 'Goldstein'. So there's that....
More and more fibs. Tear the entire dept. down and start over.
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