The FBI quietly releases a drastic revision of crime statistics for 2022, showing a dramatic increase in violent crime

The FBI has dramatically revised its violent crime statistics for 2022, showing a significant increase in violent crime from 2021 to 2022, after using the unrevised data to claim that the Biden administration caused a drop in crime.

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Unrevised 2022 data released in September 2023 showed violent crime fell 2.1 percent from 2021 to 2022, showing significant declines in murder, rape, assault and auto theft under President Joe Biden.

This data remained until September of this year and was used to counter former President Donald Trump’s claims about rising crime under President Biden.

The FBI has quietly revised its 2021 and 2022 data, showing that it over-reported violent crime in 2021 and under-reported violent crime in 2022, turning the 2.1 percent decline into a 4.5 percent increase.

They underestimated the total number of violent crimes from 2021 to 2022 by 80,029, with 1,699 more murders and non-negligent homicides and 7,780 more rapes than the FBI previously claimed.

The bureau’s press release on 2023 crime statistics makes no mention at all of the drastic revisions to the 2022 numbers, leading the public to believe that crime rates have fallen for several years in a row.

“Violent Crimes Declined for Third Consecutive Day in 2023, Including Murder and Rape,” read a USA Today headline.

The press release claimed that violent crime fell by about three percent in 2023, but failed to mention that it fell by three percent from the revised data, rather than three percent from the originally published lower rate for 2022.

The FBI crime data is just the latest positive federal statistic that was celebrated by the government before being drastically revised.

In August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made the largest downward revision in 15 years, admitting that the 818,000 jobs the Biden-Harris administration claimed to have created never existed.

Frequently drastic revisions to key statistics only serve to reduce trust in federal data.