by Bonchie
Prepare to don your shocked face. The FBI has stealth-edited its data on violent crime to show that the rate has not decreased, as previously claimed. That comes after a year of Democrat politicians, the press, and even debate moderators “fact-checking” any Republican who pointed out that crime is a rising problem in the United States.
According to Real Clear Investigations, which discovered the change, the new data represents a reversal from a 2.1 percent decrase to a 4.5 percent increase.
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.
For context, 2022 would be the second most recent year on record as 2024 data is not compiled yet. But if the FBI’s data in that year was so off, why should anyone believe their 2023 data, which claims a three percent decrease in violent crime? Will that data be revised in the coming future as well? I think we can take a pretty guess at that one.
Expectedly, the FBI did not publicize this sudden and dramatic shift in the numbers. When it released its yearly press release on crime rates in September, no mention of the revision was made.
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.
Democrat politicians and their press allies have made hay with the 2022 crime figures for the last year (the 2023 numbers only came out a few weeks ago), repeatedly claiming that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ushered in a decrease in violent crime. That “fact” had become a centerpiece of the Harris campaign, with many news outlets chastising any Republican who alleged violent crime was increasing.
Those with eyes and any sense of perception were always skeptical, though. For example, RedState questioned the data when it was released back in 2022, noting the inconsistentices with it.
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.
Gee.
Just thru “debate season.”
Now that nobody is paying attention, sneak in the factual statistics.
The claim joe and kamala kept making that crime is up ‘is all in your head’ turned out to be not true at all
Deep State keepers of government statistics which had been covering it up and falsified it for political purposes until they were about to be outed by a whistle blower.
So, where did this “revision” come from? Is this the result of some hidden data the FBI just found, is it, like the government’s economic data, just a quiet correction after the exploitation of the propaganda is finished or did the missing state’s data finally get submitted? For, if it is not due to the latter, crime rates is STILL higher than reported.
Just leave out all those crime commited by Migrants and they have their phony information