FBI Caught Gaslighting the Public With Bogus Crime Stats

Oops, the FBI has been caught surreptitiously “revising” their crime
statistics. The FBI’s stealth edits of their 2022 crime statistics showed
that violent crime had not dropped by 2.1 percent as they originally
claimed, but actually increased by 4.5 percent. That is a net increase in
violent crimes of 6.6 percent from the figures the FBI originally reported.
That is quite a large difference.

The public would never have known about the dramatic increase in violent
crimes but for the diligence of RealClearInvestigations (RCI). Their
researchers noticed a seemingly innocuous note on the FBI website, “The
2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023.”
Intrigued, the investigators went to the website to learn what the updated
FBI stats revealed. They were startled when they compared the new data with
the statistics the FBI had reported earlier.

The revised numbers showed 80,029 more violent crimes than what was
previously reported. The new dataset showed thousands more rapes, murders,
robberies, and aggravated assaults than the FBI had reported:

- 7,780 more rapes

- 1,699 more murders

- 33,459 more robberies

- 37,091 aggravated assaults

- 54,216 more motor vehicle thefts

How could the FBI miss 1,699 murders? Bodies in the morgue are hard to
miss, but the FBI managed to overlook them. It boggles the mind that over
80,000 violent crimes were missed by the nation’s “premier law enforcement
agency.” (READ MORE: Lies, Damned Lies, and Crime Statistics)

Former FBI officials are chagrined at the manipulation of crime data.
Former Assistant FBI Director Mark Morgan wrote in the Washington Examiner
that the FBI’s earlier report was “unreliable at best and deceptive at
worst.”

Carl Moody, an economics professor at the College of William and Mary who
studies crime, said, “The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without
an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.” No kidding!

You would think a revision showing such a large increase in violent crime
would be a major story. Yet, the FBI made no public announcement of this
dramatic escalation in violent crimes. In fact, the FBI’s September press
release touting a downward trend in violent crime is still on their website
— uncorrected.

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For several years, Leftists have been telling us that violent crime is
decreasing, despite the mayhem we see on the news each night. According to
the government, we can’t trust what we see. In the words of comedian Chico
Marx, “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” 

Our “lying eyes” are seeing gangs of looters running into stores, smashing
display cases, grabbing expensive items, and then racing off into waiting
cars. We see immigrants beating and kicking police officers on the street,
violent criminals set free with no bail who go on to commit more crimes,
the National Guard deployed to protect passengers on New York subways,
South American gangs taking over apartment buildings and terrorizing
residents in Colorado and Texas, and young women raped and murdered by
criminal illegal immigrants — immigrants the Biden–Harris administration
allowed into our country.

But the Democrats and their media friends tell us we are mistaken. That
crime is not on the rise, despite what we see.

Other agencies are not innocent of gaslighting the American public either.
The bureaucrats at the Department of Labor have been using the same
revisionist two-step reporting as the FBI. They have reported large
increases in job creation only to later quietly revise those numbers
downward.

Similar to the FBI’s crime statistics, the Department of Labor’s
adjustments are huge. USA Today reported, “The U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics on Wednesday revised down its estimate of total employment in
March 2024 by 818,000, the largest such downgrade in 15 years. That
effectively means there were 818,000 fewer job gains than first believed
from April 2023 through March 2024.” So, the Department of Labor misled the
public into thinking that the U.S. was doing much better economically than
it really was.

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