Even weeks after the revised numbers were released, the FBI hadn’t bothered to explain the change.
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The FBI quietly released revised numbers recently that reveal that rather than decreasing by 2.1%, violent crime in 2022 actually increased by 4.5%.
According to original research conducted by John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), the adjustments represent a net increase of 80,029 more violent crimes, including 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies and 37,091 more aggravated assaults.