FBI Quietly Updates Crime Stats With Previously Omitted Data, Violent Crime Skyrockets

The FBI just quietly updated their crime data for 2022. Turns out it was missing thousands of crimes.

The updated data shows there were 80,029 more violent crimes than in 2021. There were an additional 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults.

Democrats have said violent crime is down all cycle. Debate moderators and news networks have repeatedly “fact-checked” Republicans on the issue.

And now, with weeks before the election, the FBI stealth edits its data to show Republicans were right all along.

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BREAKING: The FBI just quietly updated their crime data for 2022. Turns out it was missing thousands of crimes!

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FBI quietly revises 2022 violent crime data, revealing increase and raising transparency concerns

A recent report reveals the FBI revised its 2022 violent crime data, indicating a 4.5% increase instead of a decrease.

By: The Express Tribune, October 16, 2024:

A recent report by John R. Lott Jr. from RealClearInvestigations has revealed that the FBI quietly revised its 2022 violent crime data, showing an increase in crime rather than a decrease.

Initially, the FBI reported in September 2023 that violent crime had dropped by 2.1% in 2022, a statistic used by many Democrats to counter claims by Donald Trump that crime was rising. However, revised figures now show violent crime increased by 4.5%, including more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

The FBI made no formal announcement regarding these changes, only noting on its website that the data had been updated. Researchers, like Carl Moody of the College of William & Mary, expressed concern about the significant revisions, stating that changes of this magnitude are unusual and unexplained. “It is up to the FBI to explain what they have done, and they haven’t explained these large changes,” said Dr. Thomas Marvell, president of Justec Research.

The revised data shows that in 2022, there were 80,029 more violent crimes than in 2021, including an additional 1,699 murders. This raises questions about the accuracy of the FBI’s 2023 crime statistics. Without the updated 2022 numbers, the 2023 drop in violent crime would be less significant, falling from a reported 3.5% to just 1.6%.

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Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats

By John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations October 16, 2024

When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.

But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

The Bureau – which has been at the center of partisan storms – made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release.

RCI discovered the change through a cryptic reference on the FBI website that states: “The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023.” But there is no mention that the numbers increased. One only sees the change by downloading the FBI’s new crime data and comparing it to the file released last year.

After the FBI released its new crime data in September, a USA Today headline read: “Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.”

It’s been over three weeks since the FBI released the revised data. The Bureau’s lack of acknowledgment or explanation about the significant change concerns researchers.

“I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022,” Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William & Mary who specializes in studying crime, told RealClearInvestigations. “There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.”

“It is up to the FBI to explain what they have done, and they haven’t explained these large changes,” Dr. Thomas Marvell, the president of Justec Research, a criminal justice statistical research organization, told RCI.

The FBI did not respond to RCI’s repeated requests for comment.

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