Law enforcement expert pushes back against the now-former Biden administration's claim that violent crime was at a 50-year low, says the administration 'manipulated' key data points.
A law enforcement expert is poking holes in the now-former Biden administration Department of Justice's repeated claims that violent crime sank to a 50-year record low, saying the agency 'manipulated data' to reach its conclusion. In 2024, the Biden administration repeatedly claimed that violent crime was at a 50-year low, based on FBI statistics. The FBI defines the following as 'violent crime': murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
Alexandrow, who founded Agape Tactical LLC, said police departments will remove 'pieces of the pie' to show constituents that crime is going down. 'A city may remove domestic murders one year, and then the next they'll remove drug-related murders so they're taking two pieces of the pie out,' he said. 'So to manipulate their statistics, they take sections of the population out to prove that they're doing their job.
Biden admin previously shifting crime stats In 2022, the Biden administration's FBI quietly updated its crime data to show an increase in violent crimes despite previous data showing violent crimes had fallen that year, which was touted as a victory for the administration. The data was lauded by Democrats and the media as part of a turning point for crime woes in the U.S.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the DOJ, the New York City Police Department, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Chicago Police Department for comment. Fox News' David Spunt and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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