The FBI is a captured entity—part of the blob. It appears beholden to some force while still legally subject to the will of the Chief Executive unless it decides to investigate them, which might look like obstruction of justice (or injustice, depending on the side the media chooses). Data from the FBI is political and about as reliable as Labor statistics for BLS, weather records at NOAA and NASA, or GDP (from whatever bureaucratic crevice that now oozes).
Given my pithy preamble, what then does it say that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not just quietly revised its 2023 crime report but done so in such a way that you’d never know differently if you didn’t download the update and fisk it?
But crime went down under whoever was running the Biden administration. Ask any Democrat running for anything or the sheeple trying to help them across the finish line. We’ve posited that this likely results from a decline from the peak during the Summer of Love and simply ignoring crimes and not punishing their perpetrators. After all, the crime capitals of America are all run by Democrats with dodgy DAs who are looking the other way to facilitate the chaos necessary to the revolution.
It’s always about the revolution with them, in case you forgot.
Fewer reported crimes allow you to claim crime went down, and I think that’s still true. Given the FBI’s tweak, this is a much more alarming fact three weeks before “the most important election in our lifetimeTM.”
It initially reported that the rate fell by 2.1% in 2022 but has since been updated to show it actually increased by 4.5%, proving Republicans’ claims that violent crime is plaguing the nation.
The FBI finally admits in the new data that there were thousands more murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults under the Biden-Harris administration — something former President Donald Trump has repeatedly brought up throughout his 2024 campaign.
For those saddled with common core math (like the FBI, it appears), that is a 6.6% rounding error. Crime went up almost 5% under Biden Harris in 2022, and the FBI felt the need to report it but not in any way that might result in a lot of attention.
Sorry to be part of the vast right-wing conspiracy sharing your facts as evidence. Of what? For starters, something we already knew.
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.
Someone might want to do a wellness check. The FBI is not “answering the door” or “picking up the phone” on this one. Despite the enormity of the error, there has been no comment.
Feel free to share that with anyone who claims crime went done as you navigate the social media landscape. This too. Trump was right again. They were wrong.
That’ll snap a few more twigs.
