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   U.S. population, they accounted for a shocking one in four or five U.S.   
   prison inmates, according to GAO. That included 4.9 million arrests for   
   7.5 million offenses including allegations of more than a million drug   
   crimes, a half-million assaults, 133,800 sex offenses, 24,200   
   kidnappings, 33,300 homicide-related offenses, and 1,500   
   terrorism-related crimes. Nobody has tracked or updated the numbers since.   
      
   Meantime, stark evidence of Lott’s claims about crime going up not down   
   under the Biden administration seemed to emerge after that presidential   
   debate   
      
   Muir: President Trump as you know the FBI says that overall is actually   
   coming down in this country.   
      
   Lott discovered the FBI quietly revised its 2022 figures from a 2.1%   
   drop in violent crime to a 4.5% increase making a total rise of 6.6%.   
   That includes 80,000 violent crimes that had gone uncounted: 33,000   
   additional robberies, 37,000 extra aggravated assaults, 7,000 more   
   rapes, and 1,700 added murders.   
      
   Sharyl: Have crime statistics always been politicized and maybe somewhat   
   manipulated?   
      
   Lott: I think it's gotten a lot worse in the last few years, maybe over   
   the last decade or so. It's gotten a lot worse. I mean, there's numbers   
   that come out of the Department of Justice now that I just don't believe   
   at all.   
      
   Sharyl (on-camera): We asked the FBI what accounted for the correction   
   in their violent crime stats for 2022. Did they undercount violent   
   crime? And why FBI trends are opposite The National Crime Victimization   
   Survey? They didn’t answer those questions but said there will be   
   increasing transparency. And big cities like New York and LA resumed   
   reporting their crime statistics to the FBI in 2023, when the FBI   
   claims, again, that violent crime went down.   
      
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