Re: FBI Caught Gaslighting the Public With Bogus Crime Stats

On 05 Nov 2024, D. Ray <d@ray> posted some
news:[email protected]: 

> 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.
> 
> …
> 
> …
> 
> 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.
> 
> …
> 
> …
> 
><https://spectator.org/fbi-caught-gaslighting-the-public-with-bogus-crim
>e-stats/> 
> 
><https://archive.md/OM5QO>

They "whitewashed" all the black crime statistics in order to avoid 
reducing support for Kamala Harris.