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   From: maikins@jm.org   
      
   On 05 Nov 2024, D. Ray  posted some   
   news:ISxViOIQKnhdYJPQDhMUHeWbYVVQCAAX@news.usenet.farm:   
      
   > 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   
      
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