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   From: d@ray   
      
   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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