Oct. 16, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the 2022 violent crime rate reported by the Justice Department was revised upward by 6.6 percentage points from 2.1 percent drop to a 4.5 percent increase:
“The violent crime reports by the Department of Justice are incomplete and invalid due to changes in the reporting system that initially fail to include many large municipalities, resulting in the 2022 violent crime rate being revised upward by 6.6 percent — from a 2.1 percent drop to a 4.5 percent increase — and making the 2023 violent crime report meaningless due to a lack of complete data.
“It is absurd that changes in the reporting requirements by the Justice Department for municipalities have rendered annual data unreliable and incomplete and is now being exploited by national, state and local administrations who get to say pay no attention to what you see on the streets, crime is low, trust us. The revisions to the 2022 violent crime data prove that the crime reporting system is failing almost as much as the criminal justice systems in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Baltimore. It is unbelievable that with modern database technology that it takes two years for the federal government to get accurate crime data reporting.”
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