A new report has highlighted how the FBI under the Biden administration changed its 2022 crime figures to reflect a rise in violent crime after initially claiming that crime had decreased.
The FBI “quietly” updated 2022 crime statistics to reflect a 4.5% rise in violent crime, including hundreds more homicides, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults, according to a study released on Wednesday by RealClear Investigations (RCI).
The most recent figures for 2022 now admit that violent crimes increased by 80,029, compared to 2021.
“This FBI report is stunning because it now doesn’t state that violent crime in 2022 was much higher than it had previously reported, nor does it explain why the new rate is so much higher, and it issued no press release about this large revision,” University of Georgia professor David Mustard, who researches extensively on crime, told RCI.
“This lack of transparency harms the FBI’s credibility.”
The FBI previously claimed that there was a 2.1% decrease in violent crime when it issued the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023.
