Two weeks after the ABC debate “fact check”, a stealth edit.
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.”
“It is up to the FBI to explain what they have done, and they haven’t explained these large changes,” Dr. Thomas Marvell, the president of Justec Research, a criminal justice statistical research organization, told RCI.
The FBI did not respond to RCI’s repeated requests for comment.
It’s not just that they are the Fan Belt Inspectors. It’s that they are thoroughly corrupt Fan Belt Inspectors.
In addition to this stealth reporting rise, there are MANY crimes that go unreported in places like San Francisco. Simply put, people have given up going to the police because they know how pointless/useless it is.
This is absolutely Kamala’s America and every voter should keep this in mind while casting a ballot.
Once upon a time the FBI Uniform Crime Report was the gold standard for criminal justice research. Local records might be cr@p, but the UCR was accurate.
How interesting to see that they’ve managed to corrupt that too. So very, very interesting.
And the USAtoday uses the revised number to claim that there was a drop in 2023, without admitting that meant 2022 was higher than 2021.
Just to be clear, it’s a felony to lie to the FBI, but it’s not a felony for the FBI to lie to the public.
The most transparent administration in history.
There’s “No Crying in Baseball” and the FBI doesn’t answer to anyone. These are obvious truths. Election interference? Another obvious truth: There’s nothing the FBI ever admits to even if their noses are shoved into the steaming stinking pile of evidence under the bright lights of a televised House Committee meeting.
Disband and start from scratch is the only chance to fix an org that’s rotten to the deepest depth of its foundations.
October surprise?
I’ll wait for alla S, (AKA; the fat incel), to post and tell how wrong those numbers are.
They probably are wrong. Probably still far lower than reality, still trying to slap that lipstick on the pig.
Do we believe anything from Gaza or China? No we do not. This is now the same. Sad, but there it is. Imagine the BS that Canadian crime numbers must be.
“make it difficult to trust the FBI data.”
We are surprised by this lack of trust! The Department of Labour lied about employment numbers, the Department of Health lied about “safe and effective”, the Press Corps lied about Biden’s ability, the Attorney General’s Office lied about the ‘safe and secure’ election, I could go on and on so why is there any question about trusting any federal body about anything, they are all liars.