Opinion

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” ~ Denis Diderot.

Our once-respectable FBI is reporting that, in 2022, there was a 1.7% decline in violent crime.

Yet, many police departments are no longer reporting crime data to the FBI. In 2022, 6097 police agencies (including LAPD and NYPD) did not submit any crime data to the FBI, and many others submitted only partial data.

Simultaneously, our “National Crime Victimization Survey” showed a 44% increase in violent crime during the exact same period.

Both reports come from our same “Justice Department,” yet each tells an alarmingly divergent story. They can’t both be true!

It is painfully obvious that agenda-driven bureaucrats are deliberately manufacturing such contradictions/inaccuracies. With straight faces, leftist politicians, along with their media puppets, then insist that “crime is down” as they beg for our votes (with a contemptuous sneer)!

The truth is:

American law enforcement has all but collapsed, particularly in metro areas! Proof can be seen at retailers that now lock up items, which was not the case just a few years ago. Once-thriving retail businesses are now closing their doors, which is another indicator. Prior to JRB taking office, the arrest rate for violent crimes in major cities was 44%.

By 2022, it was down to 20%. Even lower now. Such a precipitous “drop in crime” is not practically possible!

Arrest rates have lowered because citizens are not motivated to even report most crimes to police, a trend promoted by leftist metro politicians in an effort to make themselves look good by simply hiding the truth.

Owing to leftist-inspired “de-funding,” metro police resources are increasingly limited, so police focus on murders.

Accordingly, “less-serious crimes” are ignored, and forcible rape, armed robbery, grand larceny, aggravated assault, and vandalism inevitably end up in the “less serious” category. Most are no longer even reported, as noted above.

With many departments, 911 calls are now “triaged,” with the question “Is this a real emergency?” coming first.

When the caller does not make a persuasive case within the first few syllables, he/she is told to “come down to the police station and fill out a report,” or the call is immediately shunted off to voicemail.

The crime of murder does not have quite the same reporting inaccuracies as do other felonies.

However, as my colleague Tom Givens has pointed out, “attempted murder” is actually “murder,” with no lack of intent on the part of the murderer.

With improvements in emergency medicine, many who would have been murder victims just a few years ago are today saved from death, but the viciousness and intent of the murderer have not somehow magically improved!

Leftist prosecutors routinely downgrade such felonies to misdemeanors, so “murders” become “aggravated assaults,” which then become “simple assaults,” because FBI reports include “aggravated assaults” but do not include “simple assaults,” so the entire crime, indeed the entire crime category, conveniently disappears.

Thus, corrupt leftists tell us to ignore rising murder rates and focus on “aggravated assaults” instead because that makes their dishonesty and incompetence more palatable, as noted above.

Violent criminals have “friends in high places,” and thus little to worry about. The rest of us have much to worry about, as we obviously have precious few!

/John

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