Fakestats world: “fbi ‘quietly’ [secretly] revises crime statistics higher, i.e.: crime is not down the last three years

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By Grand Rapids Anonymous
wednesday, october 16, 2024 at 11:22:00 a.m. edt

“(zh) it’s no secret that the Biden-Harris administration has been lying to us – publishing positive economic data that they tout, while quietly revising lower months later after achieving their desired result.

“now we find out that they’ve also been lying about crime statistics – something that author John R. Lott has been tracking and covering extensively.

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Now we find they’ve been lying about crime stats, too.

“in september 2023, the fbi released the ‘final’ crime data for 2022 – showing that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1% - which democrats used to counter Donald Trump’s claims that crime has been soaring.

“now we find that the fbi has quietly revised those numbers – and that crime actually increased by 4.5% in 2022 (4.9% in absolute terms)...

“breaking it down by type of crime, we see that property crime and larceny/theft were the top changes, followed by aggravated assault, burglary, rape and motor vehicle theft.

“and of course, the bureau made absolutely no mention of these revisions in their september 2024 press release.

“as John R. Lott Jr. explains once again via realclearinvestigations, 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.”

GRA: And I don’t believe the numbers YET—they are still not being truthful about black and invader crime—the actual number of crimes are still higher than what media and officials report (lie about).

--GRA