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"In summary, it looks like crime rates have been flat over the past decade. Neither increasing that much, or decreasing that much."
I agree. If one wants to say crime is down, what reference point are these folks in the news using? 1993? Yes, crime is down from early to mid 1990s levels, but based on the last decade or so (circa 2010 to now), crime is flat. So yes, this stuff from media is 100% spin.
As would be the ones talking about it going up. For example, picked at random, a thread talking about a "big jump" under the Biden admin.
FBI quietly updates crime data to show big jump in violence under Biden-Harris admin: 'Shocking'
Crime and data expert John Lott spoke to Fox News Digital regarding how the FBI updated its 2022 violent crime stats to show a 4.5% increase, not a decrease.www.foxnews.com
A 2.1% drop in violent crimes in 2022 has now been revised to show a 4.5% increase, crime and data expert John Lott found
The Federal Bureau of Investigation quietly updated its 2022 crime data to show an increase in violent crimes, despite previous data showing violent crimes had fallen that year, which was touted as a victory for the Biden-Harris administration.
"For some reason, the media, they did pick the crime data that they think goes and makes the Democrats look as good as possible. And then even when the crime data that they've relied on turns out by the very source of that data to be wrong, none of them fix it," Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview this week.
The FBI released its annual crime in the nation data for 2022 last year, which found a 2.1% decrease in violent crimes compared to 2021, Lott explained. The data was lauded by Democrats and the media as part of a turning point for crime woes in the U.S., following the crime wave of 2020, when defund-the-police protests and riots swept the nation and the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders upended daily life.
Now, the data reflects a net increase of 80,029 violent crimes in 2022 over 2021. Lott found that under the umbrella of violent crime, there were an additional 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies and 37,091 aggravated assaults that year.
This is standard fare in American Presidential politics, the Party out of the White House tells us all “how bad things are because of the [other] Party!!!”
Agreed. When in reality, things are bad because of both parties, corporate greed, and the state of the fallen world.
