ABC’s David Muir Lied About Crime Falling Under Biden-Harris
John R. Lott, Jr. | Sep 11, 2024
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DAVID MUIR: “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country, …”
In fact, Trump was correct about the increase in crime under Biden. While violent crime fell by 17 percent under Trump, Biden has seen it rise by 43 percent.
Muir doesn’t understand what the FBI is measuring. The FBI counts the number of crimes reported to police. Trump was right that less than half of police departments are now giving that data to the FBI, but, more importantly, Trump was discussing what was happening to total crime, not just the number of crimes reported to police.
There are two measures of crime: One, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), counts the number of crimes reported to police yearly.
The other, the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey, asks about 240,000 people each year whether they have been victims of crime, in an attempt to measure both reported and unreported crimes.
We know that crime victims report only about 40 percent of violent crimes and 30 percent of property crimes to police.
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Like the Covid “vaccine” injury stats, the Gooferment has put their collective “thumb” on the scale.
Sigh!
Like economic data on inflation, they redefine the yardstick.
Argh!
All to make themselves look good.
Makes you not want to believe anything that they say.
Why report “unemployment nubers”? Just report Social Security Tax Receipts. Because they want to fudge the numbers.
Argh!
We know they don’t enforce the “felon in possession of a firearm”! Why not?
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