{"id":3458,"date":"2024-06-18T12:55:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2024-06-18T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:55:32","slug":"can-you-believe-the-fbi-crime-data-showing-a-drop-in-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Can You Believe The FBI Crime Data Showing A Drop In Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Shutterstock\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shutterstock_579245569-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"crime scene investigation tape police\" title=\"crime scene investigation tape police\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The latest Federal Bureau of Investigation crime data for the first quarter of 2024 shows a substantial reduction in crime compared to the same time last year. In fact, the FBI reported that crime fell more than 15% from the first quarter 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of data from agencies that voluntarily submitted at least two or more common months of data for January through March 2023 and 2024 indicates reported violent crime decreased by 15.2 percent. Murder decreased by 26.4 percent, rape decreased by 25.7 percent, robbery decreased by 17.8 percent, and aggravated assault decreased by 12.5 percent. Reported property crime also decreased by 15.1 percent\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let me say up front that I don\u2019t believe the FBI\u2019s crime data, and not just because I\u2019m leery of all government agencies under the Biden regime. A conversation I had a month or so back with Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, opened my eyes to some important truths you won\u2019t hear in the so-called \u201cmainstream\u201d media.<\/p>\n<p>One factor, according to Lott, is that when crime started increasing dramatically during the pandemic, many big cities, in an attempt to hide that trend, simply stopped reporting their crime figures to the FBI. In fact, 37% of police departments, including those in big, crime-ridden cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City, no longer report their crime data to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Without those cities, the FBI data doesn\u2019t give a true reflection of the current situation. Also, trends in whether or not citizens report crimes play a factor in the crime data numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a big problem with using the FBI Uniform Crime Report data on crimes reported to police because victims don\u2019t report most crimes,\u201d Lott wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2024\/04\/the-collapse-in-law-enforcement-as-arrest-rates-plummet-people-have-been-less-willing-to-report-crime\/\">recent analysis<\/a>. \u201cMore importantly, the number of crimes reported to police falls as the arrest rate declines. If people don\u2019t think the police will solve their cases, they are less likely to report them to the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Lott pointed out to bolster this argument, although the violent crime rate reported to police <em>declined<\/em> 1.7% between 2021 and 2022, the National Crime Victimization Survey showed that total violent crime\u2014both reported and unreported\u2014actually <em>jumped<\/em> substantially from 16.5 to 23.5 per thousand during that period. Additionally, violent crime in 2022 was above the rate the last year before the pandemic in 2019 and above the average for the five years from 2015 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>All that said, the FBI crime data showing greatly reduced crime for the first quarter of 2024 is a hard pill for me to swallow. Most people can see that crime is increasing all around them, yet the \u201cmainstream\u201d media cling to the FBI data to try to prove things aren\u2019t so bad under the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n<p>However, for just a few moments let\u2019s pretend that the data is correct and that crime has fallen substantially. With near record gun sales for almost five years, wouldn\u2019t that reduction prove that Lott\u2019s seminal book, <em>More Guns, Less Crime<\/em>, published back in 1998 and updated a number of times since then, is even more true today than it was then?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the point Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, made in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2024\/06\/violent-crime-drops-as-gun-ownership-climbs\/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=81497a01e6-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-81497a01e6-22629798#axzz8cy5CDmXe\">Ammoland feature<\/a> juxtaposing the lower crime rate in relation to incredibly high gun sales over the past several years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this report shows is that blaming lawful gun ownership for violent crime is a non-starter, and it always has been,\u201d Gottlieb concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, you can either believe your lying eyes that tell you violent crime continues to be on the upswing and the Biden Administration has failed Americans in that respect, or you can believe crime has gone down substantially in the wake of Americans buying more than 1 million guns a month for the past 58 months. Neither option looks good for the Biden gun-ban clan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/can-you-believe-the-fbi-crime-data-showing-a-drop-in-crime\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shutterstock Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 The latest Federal Bureau of Investigation crime data for the first quarter of 2024 shows a substantial reduction in crime compared to the same time last year. In fact, the FBI reported that crime fell more than 15% from the first quarter 2023. 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