Updated FBI States Prove GOP Was Right All Along

For the last two years, Republicans have claimed that violent crime has been on the rise under the Biden administration.

Democrats and the media have regularly debunked that claim based on the numbers provided by the FBI report for 2022 crimes.

The GOP has always maintained that since the FBI changed it data collection techniques, the numbers were inaccurate, and they were just proven right.

We Were Right Again

Donald Trump actually made this claim during his debate with Joe Biden, and the moderators corrected him on this.

Now, however, we are finding out that Trump had it right all along.

When the FBI changed the way it collected data, not all cities were in the reporting, and the stats reflected that.

When the report was released initially, it showed a 2.1% decrease in violent crime. That number has now been significantly upwardly adjusted, showing a massive 4.5% increase in violent crime for 2022, which accounts for more than 80,000 crimes.

John Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, explained, "For some reason, the media, they did pick the crime data that they think goes and makes the Democrats look as good as possible. And then even when the crime data that they've relied on turns out by the very source of that data to be wrong, none of them fix it.”

He continued, "To give people an idea of the size of the change, when the 2022 data came out in September 2023, they initially reported that violent crime had fallen by 2.1% in 2022.… That's the final data, supposedly, for 2022.

“The revision of that final data that came out last month, now claims that rather than the 2.1% drop, that there was actually a 4.5% increase in violent crime that occurred in 2022. That's a 6.6 percentage point change there.

"It's from a drop to an increase. And, you know, the bizarre thing to me is, for a year after the 2022 data was put out, we were having headlines, news articles after news articles saying, 'Violent crime is falling, people mistakenly or erroneously believe that it's increasing.'

“And, you know, and they were relying on this data. But you don't see any corrections in the news. Saying, ‘Oops, the FBI data that we relied on was wrong, that rather than a drop, there was actually an increase that had occurred.’"

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt pounced on the new data, stating, "The federal government lied about Biden’s cognitive decline, lied about the job numbers, and now we learn they lied about crime numbers too.

“Kamala Harris must admit she’s wrong and address how she plans to bring down the rising crime crisis. Every mainstream media reporter who was quick to correct President Trump must cover this new revelation if they have any shred of integrity left."

The timing of this could not be worse for Harris who has been using this during her campaign to hit Trump.

It winds up being one more thing the media and Democrats have said Trump was lying about that turns out to be true, but I am going to guess the correction will not get as much attention as the claims that Trump was making up information.