Democrats are hiding the rise in violent
crime with tricky statistics
New York Post,
by
John Lott
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
8/14/2024 6:10:34 AM
“Make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz warned in his first speech as Kamala Harris’ running mate.
“If you look this up at home,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claimed last month, “you will know that crime went down under Biden and crime went up under Trump. Why would America want to go back to the higher crime we experienced under Donald Trump?”
But the opposite is true: Between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump — and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022.
Of course, news outlets routinely assert that Americans are mistaken in believing that violent crime is rising.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/14/2024 6:29:23 AM (No. 1777722)
They need to get trickier. Violent crime, inflation, government abuse of citizens, the national debt - every bad thing imaginable is growing under the idiot administration and their version of "tricky" is not working.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/14/2024 7:17:03 AM (No. 1777741)
All except Chicago. Chicago is uniquely proud of their shot, killed or maimed statistics. Watch for their February 14th statistics yearly.
5 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/14/2024 7:50:39 AM (No. 1777758)
Large stores were not closing in the cities because of shoplifting and violence when Trump was President.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/14/2024 8:13:41 AM (No. 1777780)
This is double hilarious coming from the guy who refused Donald Trump's offer of the National Guard's protection of his state while Walz stood there and cheered the burning of Minneapolis. What a doofus. Even Mayor Bowser and Nancy Pelosi refused to allow the Guard to protect DC so that the FBI-created "insurrection" could take place and entrap Trump supporters who mostly stood around and watched, those who did not take part in the Capitol Police-conducted tour of the Capitol Building. Ashley Babbitt was the only victim of harm that day.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/14/2024 8:50:16 AM (No. 1777799)
In our area crime in some older inner ring suburbs has skyrocketed because they have built ''Affordable housing'' and moved some of the gang bangers out of the city. Those suburbs are usually in different counties and crimes are reported separately from the city.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
plaids 8/14/2024 9:36:30 AM (No. 1777831)
I believe that next week Chicago will be clean and sanitized and law enforcement will front and center.
Some of the real "criminals" will be in the Convention Center. The entertainment venue will probably be a freak show.
Remember who is the key factor of this city....BHO. The media groups will look like trained seals.
Anyone taking meds for high blood pressure may want to watch only snippets. I won't be glued to the airings. My health is more important.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/14/2024 11:38:56 AM (No. 1777891)
My local paper lists the previous day's arrests with info from the police departments. Many times those arrested are clearly Hispanic with Hispanic names, but the paper lists their race as white. Is this an effort for 'criminal equality'? Happens too often to be a mistake.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/15/2024 7:46:29 AM (No. 1778200)
The trend under Biden/Harris is to change the formula or reporting method to adjust the statistics to get the results you want. You can compare the unemployment reports from today and 7 years ago but you are not comparing apples to apples due to changes in who counts as being unemployed. The new method skews the numbers. If you use the old method unemployment is much higher. Statistics can be manipulated by adding or leaving data out in order to make yourself look good. Don't trust Democrats with any statistics report unless you can verify the input into calculating it. What was left out of the formula will tell you a lot more than their fake reports.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
planetgeo 8/15/2024 8:52:21 AM (No. 1778241)
Listen to me now and hear me later...EVERY statistic from a Democrat government is a lie. Labor statistics, the debt, crime, election results, COVID deaths, etc. EVERYTHING. They under-report, over-report, don't report, or purposely misclassify data as needed to get the results needed to make themselves look good, not so bad, or win. ALWAYS.
To get the real story you need to dig deep from multiple sources and put together the things they've carefully hidden. Every communist government and media source uses the same tricks.
9 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/15/2024 8:54:43 AM (No. 1778243)
People don't believe what they are being told by the government, because they believe what they see and experience every day, which is crime and corruption that has gone through the roof. No one is arrested for nonviolent crimes, none for corruption, and only assaults on police officers are likely to result in arrests.
4 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/15/2024 10:39:51 AM (No. 1778318)
It's kind of pathetic to watch the obama/biden cabal try and twist the facts...with internet access...everyone is getting the facts...unfiltered and available....they're losing control of the narrative...even google is having a hard time with the "misinformation" narrative...it keeps blowing up in their faces...perhaps the social media...X... is working for President Trump....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
danu 8/15/2024 5:11:45 PM (No. 1778564)
between the geezers n streetwalkers it's a bloodthirsty crowd, that axis of weasel. chi-town trembles.
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