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Lies, damned lies [1]

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Date: 2024-10-16  

From Pajamas Media:

One of the repeated refrains from the Harris-Walz campaign is that crime is down under the Biden-Harris administration. This isn’t anything new; Democrats have been downplaying crime stats for years. But this year, the candidates and their surrogates have been running around trying to convince Americans that this nation has gotten safer since Biden entered 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

FBI crime data has borne out this narrative in some ways. However, RealClearInvestigations (RCI) has discovered that the bureau stealth-edited its crime stats for 2022, and that change doesn’t look so good for Democrats.

“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%,” John R. Lott Jr. writes at RCI “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%,” Lott adds. “The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.”

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