Besides, when talking about crime statistics, it's always been pointed out here that vehicle thefts have not fallen in the same way other crimes have declined. - CO

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declined? Surely someone as informed as yourself saw this reported somewhere.

msn.com - FBI quietly revises crime statistics and reveals rise in violent crime

FBI quietly revises crime statistics and reveals rise in violent crime
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According to crimeresearch.org, the revised FBI statistics show a net increase of 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, and 37,091 more aggravated assaults from 2021 to 2022. Some figures from 2021 were decreased.

The increase was recorded despite the fact that data still weren't collected from some of the most violent precincts.

After the FBI changed the way it collects national crime data in 2021, some major police departments, such as those in New York City and Los Angeles, haven't turned over their crime data.

The FBI discloses now that its data are “based on data received from 13,719 of 19,268 law enforcement agencies in the country.”

The update is politically charged, as Democrats have liberally cited the previous numbers showing a decrease in crime as evidence that former President Donald Trump's and Republicans' concern over rising crime is false.

During the September presidential debate, Trump sparred with the moderator after the latter pointed to FBI statistics to show that violent crime had decreased for several years in a row, something the new statistics found to be definitively false.

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