So every FaCt ChEcK saying "but wait, crime is down" was wrong. Every one. #Crime went up, not down, according to a silent revision of the fbi numbers. The only published info about the numbers is from a year ago still boasting, falsely, that the numbers went down. One has to get to the data and analyze it to see it's been revised and the press release is untrue.
How much more violent crime? "80,029 more violent crimes" than the prior year. That's not a decrease. That's a huge increase.
The government can't guard us from #misinformation. The government is producing the misinformation.
Excerpts from the article:
[in 2023 the #FBI ] reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. 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%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.
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“This FBI report is stunning because it now doesn’t state that violent crime in 2022 was much higher than it had previously reported, nor does it explain why the new rate is so much higher, and it issued no press release about this large revision,” said David Mustard, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia who researches extensively on crime. “This lack of transparency harms the FBI’s credibility.”
