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The Biden folks are touting huge decreases in crime since Joe took office, saying crime rates have dropped dramatically and of course Joe and his confused lot are responsible.<\/p>\n
An independent group of law enforcement officials and analysts claim violent crime rates are much higher than figures reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its 2023 violent crime statistics.<\/p>\n
The Coalition for Law Order and Safety released its April 2024 report called “Assessing America’s Crime Crises: Trends, Causes, and Consequences,” and identified four potential causes for the increase in crime in most major cities across the U.S.: de-policing, de-carceration, de-prosecution and politicization of the criminal justice system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not exactly headline reasons there…but they also say the FBI’s stats are questionable?<\/p>\n
The new report reveals three major findings: that the U.S. faces a public safety crisis beset by high crime and an increasingly dysfunctional justice system; that crime has risen dramatically over the past few years and may be worse than some official statistics claim; and that although preliminary 2023 FBI data shows a decline in many offenses, violent and serious crime remains heightened compared to 2019 data.<\/p>\n
Through aggregated data sets directly from more than 70 of the nation’s largest police departments and victim surveys, researchers claim violent crime has been “substantially elevated in major cities” compared to pre-2020 levels. The group’s research also showed that due to significant under-reporting of certain crimes, the FBI’s official data doesn’t completely capture the full snapshot of crime in the U.S.<\/p>\n
“There’s a series of caveats attached to the FBI data that the FBI doesn’t make as clear as they should,” Sean Kennedy, one of the lead researchers, told Fox News Digital in an interview.<\/p>\n
…several police departments redefined the classifications for certain violent crimes and transitioned away from a decades-old recording system.<\/p>\n
“If you classify something as an aggravated assault, it’s a violent crime or a felony, but if you classify it as a simple assault, it’s then a misdemeanor and a non-violent crime,” Kennedy said.<\/p>\n
In 2019, 89% of municipal police departments \u2013 spanning about 97% of the population \u2013 submitted crime data to the FBI. To compensate for incomplete data, the FBI will fill in gaps using “inferred” statistics, the report notes.<\/p>\n