FBI quietly revised 2022 crime data to show violent offenses rose rather than dropped

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FBI quietly revised 2022 crime data to show violent offenses rose rather than dropped​


Former President Donald Trump has been hit with numerous “fact-checks” on the campaign trail that have cited FBI statistics to maintain violent crime is falling in America.

However, the bureau quietly adjusted its figures for 2022 in recent weeks — and the new numbers show that offenses actually ticked up overall.

The apparent stealth edit to the bureau’s statistics, first reported by RealClearInvestigations, shows that the raw number of violent crime incidents — including murders, assaults and rapes — rose to 1,256,671 in 2022 from 1,197,930 in 2021, an increase of 4.9%.


The FBI revised the way crime data was collected in 2021.Kevin C. Downs for NY Post
In October of 2023, the FBI put out a press release unveiling its national crime data for 2022, which found that “national violent crime decreased an estimated 1.7% in 2022 compared to 2021 estimates.”

Initially, the bureau projected that the violent crime rate relative to the US population had slipped by 2.1% in 2022 compared to 2021.

But the FBI’s adjustment now suggests that the rate of violent crime actually jumped by about 4.5% over the same period.

The upward revision went unmentioned in the bureau’s annual crime figures press release from September of this year, which announced that violent crime dropped by roughly 3% year-over-year in 2023.

The Crime Prevention Research Center first identified the FBI’s subtle fix, citing a spreadsheet breaking down the original data.

“I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” College of William & Mary economics professor Carl Moody, 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,” Moody added....
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So crime instead of slipping down 1.7% actually went up 4.9% that is a 6.6% jump up. Looks like Mr. Fact check David Muir was WRONG! And Donald Trump was CORRECT! When is ABC going to issue a correction with a personal apology from David Muir. I'm predicting never.
 
FBI crime statistics have been a propaganda tool for a very long time now. That doesn't mean that they are completely useless, just that they should be viewed with a great deal of suspicion and distrust.


A great example of their added-in structural bias, is the fact that there is a category and statistical data gathered for Muslims to be a victims of hate crimes, but the category for them to be officially designated as a perpetrator of hate crimes, and terrorism was removed. Consequently, people like the Umqua community college terrorist, was lumped in with the Caucasian Christians, when clearly he was an Islamic Terrorist


This was not always true, Obama ordered it changed.

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Again, no source, what a surprise

Ah, if you read the actual report you’d see that they at the time said only 80% of reporting districts had submitted their statistics, and, well over 90% of the heavily urban areas had, what you are seeing is an update from rural areas, same rural areas largely red politically
 
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