Jeffrey Anderson, former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, argues that media and fact-checkers are downplaying a significant rise in urban crime rates since 2020.
A guru on crime statistics believes progressive journalists and pundits have misled Americans by insisting crime is down under the Biden -Harris administration. Jeffrey Anderson is the president of the American Mainstreet Initiative, a small think tank that focuses on issues 'everyday Americans' care about, such as crime and immigration, inflation and the national debt.
So, they're trying to grab on to whatever numbers they can, stats they would never normally cite, like partial year, unpolished FBI figures, and try to claim that we're seeing a decline in crime,' Anderson said. Anderson said the National Crime Victimization Survey , which is put out by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the DOJ statistical agency where he used to work, proves his point. 'The FBI is not a statistical agency.
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