CV NEWS FEED // Nearly three weeks before the 2024 presidential election the FBI released updated crime statistics showing an increase in violent crime under the Biden-Harris administration.
News of the updated statistics broke roughly a month after the first presidential general election debate, where ABC’s David Muir after “fact-checked” Republican nominee Donald Trump after he correctly pointed out that crime had spiked under President Joe Biden and Vice-president Kamala Harris.
“Crime is down all over the world except here, crime here is up and through the roof despite their fraudulent statements that they made, crime in this country is through the roof,” said the former president. “And we have a new form of crime, it’s called migrant crime and it’s happening at levels nobody thought possible.”
Muir interjected: “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country.”
“Excuse me,” Trump shot back. “The FBI were defrauding statements. They didn’t include the worst cities. They didn’t include the cities with the worst crime, it was a fraud.”
The Crime Prevention Research Center this week released an article detailing the statistics, including the fluctuations and flawed reports, from the years 2021-2023.
“Shockingly, the FBI’s September press release with the 2023 data doesn’t mention the changes to earlier data and that the original drop in violent crime for 2022 was now an increase,” the article stated. “Nor did they mention that the new reported increase in 2022 was larger than the claimed decrease in 2023.”
“With the adjustments,” the article pointed out, “there is a net increase of 80.029 more violent crimes, 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, and 37,091 more aggravated assaults.”
Elon Musk, a prospective cabinet member for Trump, added on his platform X (formerly Twitter): “Even the latest FBI crime data massively understates the problem.”