First jobs, now crime: Bidens FBI revises 2022 violence stats for the worse

This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024.“Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official statement.Yet, with crime a central issue in this year’s election, he and the mainstream media have carefully ignored evidence that the FBI may be fudging its numbers — much like the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics massively overestimated the number of jobs created during the Biden-Harris administration.Last month, new FBI data showed that reported serious violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) fell by 3.5% in 2023. But at the same time — and much more quietly — the FBI revised its earlier data for 2022, turning a reported decrease into a worrisome increase in violent crime.Last year, the media trumpeted the FBI’s claim that reported violent crime had fallen in 2022 by 2.1%. But now the FBI admits that violent crime rose in 2022 instead, by 4.5% — off by 6.6 percentage points.These updated numbers resulted in a net increase in 2022 over 2021 of 80,029 violent crimes: 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies and 37,091 aggravated assaults.It’s a concerning change regarding a highly politicized topic.A Gallup poll found in March that “crime and violence” was Americans’ second biggest concern, after inflation. For a couple of years now, the mainstream media has been running headlines such as this from NBC News: “Most people think the U.S.

crime rate is rising.They’re wrong.” USA Today’s take on the 2023 FBI crime data was typical: “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.”Yet don’t expect the media to let people know that all the headlines over the last year were wrong — or that 2022’s increase was greater than the reported 2023 drop.Perhaps the FBI’s newest numbers won’t be revised upward next year, after the electio...