Crime statistics are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you whatever you want to hear. And if that fails, just change the reporting system.
Three years ago, the FBI, under the authority of Joe Biden's Justice Department, changed its crime reporting system. Subsequently, every law enforcement agency nationwide was required to integrate their systems with the FBI's. Many have yet to do so, including some of America's largest cities.
But that hasn't deterred the FBI from issuing crime reports which, tortured by inaccurate information, are totally worthless as statistical data points. As a result, according to FBI statistics, crime rates are down "significantly," especially... go figure, in places where crime reporting systems don't communicate with the FBI's. It isn't a coincidence that lower crime rates benefit Joe Biden's reelection bid.
The FBI's crime statistics may be totally inaccurate, but the Biden administration, democrat politicians, the people who vote for them, and the liberal media are touting the numbers anyway, assuring people terrorized by free-range criminals that everyone's safe and their fears are born out of paranoia and, of course... racism. One member of the aforementioned group is Transportation Secretary, "Pothole" Pete Buttigieg, who lives in Washington, DC.
Says Pete about his life in DC: "There's a lot of energy going into making the nation's capital seem far worse than it is. But the simple facts and the simple reality are right here staring us in the face, including the fact I can safely walk my dog to the Capitol today in a way you couldn't do when we all got here." Okay, except... very few residents of Washington, DC have a Secret Service security detail.
Meanwhile, at the same time Pothole Pete was telling everyone how safe he feels, just blocks from the Capitol where he walks his dog, there was a quadruple shooting. Elsewhere in DC, crimes were being committed in record numbers. According to stats not reported to the FBI by the Metropolitan Police Department, homicides increased by nearly 35% and robberies were up 67%. Violent crime as a whole shot up by almost 40% in 2023 compared to the previous year... carjackings increased by over 100%! The same seriously underreported crime statistics exist nationwide.
So... when you step over those shell casings and blood stains on the sidewalk... assuming that chalk outline isn't yours, ask yourself the questions: What's the untortured truth, who do I believe? Is it the fantasy told by Pothole Pete, the FBI, and the Biden administration, or is it the grim, out-of-control, crime-rampant reality easily seen and felt in cities all across America? As for walking his dog at the Capitol... what's produced inside that building...
Is a steaming pile much too large for Pete's pooper-scooper.