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FBI Stealth Edits Violent Crime Stats-Shockingly- NOT down 2.1% but UP 4.5%
2024-10-17
When the FBI originally released the "final" crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent mostly peaceful crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s claims of soaring crime.

But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent mostly peaceful 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 blurb.

RCI discovered the change through a cryptic reference on the FBI website that states: "The 2022 violent mostly peaceful 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 mostly peaceful 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."

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Posted by:NoMoreBS

#5  The real bummer here is that none of us are surprised.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-10-17 14:38  

#4  They decided to replace fabricated statistics with manipulated ones.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-10-17 12:50  

#3  I assume the revised numbers still don’t include stats from those cities that haven’t bothered to submit their data.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-10-17 11:23  

#2  So, the FBI has now admitted that they just make up the stuff in their press releases.
Informative. Not unexpected, though.
Let's get to the part where they admit that their 'expert witnesses' lie on the stand.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-10-17 08:56  

#1  Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats Higher
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-10-17 00:59  

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