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FBI Quietly Issues Drastic Revision to 2022 Crime Stats Showing Dramatic Increase in Violent Crime

Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotOctober 17, 2024Updated:October 17, 20243 Comments2 Mins Read
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The FBI has drastically revised its 2022 violent crime statistics, showing a significant uptick in violent crime from 2021 to 2022 after the unrevised data was used to claim that the Biden Administration caused a drop in crime.

[RELATED: Feds Admit 819k Jobs Created Under Biden-Harris Never Existed…]

The unrevised 2022 data, released in September 2023, showed that violent crime fell by 2.1 percent from 2021 to 2022, showing a significant drop in murder, rape, assault, and car theft under President Joe Biden.

That data remained until September of this year and has been used to counter former President Donald Trump’s claims about rising crime under President Biden.

The FBI quietly revised its 2021 and 2022 data, showing that it overreported violent crime in 2021 and underreported it in 2022, turning the 2.1 percent drop into a 4.5 percent increase.

They undercounted the total number of violent crimes by 80,029 from 2021 to 2022, with 1,699 more murders and non-negligent manslaughters, and 7,780 more rapes than the FBI previously claimed.

From the Crime Prevention Research Center

The bureau’s press release on the 2023 crime statistics entirely neglects to mention the drastic revisions to the 2022 numbers, misleading the public into believing that the crime rate has dropped for multiple consecutive years.

“Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape” read one USA Today headline.

The press release claimed that violent crime dropped in 2023 by roughly three percent, but did not mention that it dropped by three percent from the revised data rather than three percent from the originally publicized lower 2022 rate.

The FBI crime data is just the latest favorable federal statistic celebrated by the administration before being drastically revised.

In August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made its largest downward revision in 15 years, admitting that 818,000 jobs that the Biden-Harris administration claimed to have created never existed.

The frequent drastic revision of important statistics only serves to lower trust in federal data.

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Seamus Othot

Seamus Othot is a reporter for The Maine Wire. He grew up in New Hampshire, and graduated from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where he was able to spend his time reading the great works of Western Civilization. He can be reached at [email protected] or โ€ช(401) 216-9160โ€ฌ.

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Knot nice
Knot nice
1 year ago

Big surprise. Just like unemployment numbers, inflation numbers, number of people across the border, the laptop, covid, they just lie upon lie, upon lie. Anyone who votes for these criminals need to have their head examined or charged with collusion.

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Rooster
Rooster
1 year ago

Dang, Trump.was tight again? Face it you can not trust anything the government says, just a pack of lies.

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mark violette
mark violette
1 year ago

This is why nobody trusts the goverment any more

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