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The election is just a few weeks away which means the gaslighting is intensifying rapidly. Efforts to convince Americans the economy is doing much better than reality leads them to believe are being coupled with Democrats and media (as always, pardon the redundancy) attempting to prove that violent crime is down in big cities all across the country. For the latter, "FBI data" is being presented as proof:
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BREAKING: Murder and other violent crime dropped across the U.S. last year, FBI data shows. pic.twitter.com/DiPzEV0rmK
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 23, 2024
Former Obama "car czar" Steve Rattner was among Democrats parroting a report that is incredibly misleading for reasons we'll get to in a minute:
The FBI released its annual US crime estimates for 2023 today, reporting an 11.6% decline in murder — further evidence that Trump’s narratives of exploding crime are complete nonsense.
cc: @Crimealytics pic.twitter.com/Dl37HuPd8Y
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) September 23, 2024
What they don't want everybody to know is that many high crime areas are simply not reporting data to the FBI, DAs aren't prosecuting crimes or crimes simply aren't being reported to the authorities because people know nothing will be done about it.
On Fox News, Greg Gutfeld spelled out what's really going on, which is more Democrat/media gaslighting:
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Gutfeld: "Crime reporting is down because no one's reporting the crime because they know that when the criminal gets out—which is almost in a few hours—he's going to come for you." pic.twitter.com/q9ZRV0zKMy
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 24, 2024
That sums it all up perfectly.
The Democrats will keep parroting the "crime is down" claims while hoping that nobody understands the statistical game that's being played.
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