A surge in rapes, muggings and shootings has taken hold in American cities since 2019, according to an analysis of federal data, and researchers say the violence is a product of Democrats’ anti-police, pro-criminal policies enacted after the death of George Floyd.
The number of city dwellers who reported being victims of violent crime shot up over 40% from 2019 to 2023, according to the Justice Department's National Crime Victimization Survey.
The analysis showed little change in rural and suburban parts of the U.S. Veteran crime statistician Jeff Anderson, who first spotted the spike in urban crime rates in the federal data made public in September, said "Leftist ideologues" working as top prosecutors are behind the rift.
In September, the FBI's comprehensive annual Crime in the Nation Statistics, a separate report most often cited by the Biden administration, showed violent crime in the nation down 3% from 2022 to 2023.
In the agency's most recent Quarterly Uniform Crime Report, which covers January through June, the FBI said violent crime fell 10% and property crime fell 13% nationwide compared with last year.
"The Committee is concerned that the FBI's recent failures to report accurate crime data are politically motivated," Rep. James Comer, Kentucky Republican, said in his letter to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray.
Mr. Anderson said the dramatic changes in the federal survey's victimization rate warrant more attention, especially from media outlets that have cited the FBI's crime numbers for defanging former President Donald Trump's talking points about crime in big cities.
"The press is busy reporting this 3% drop in crime from the FBI, and that's just an estimate that is by no means exact, and they're ignoring a 40% increase in violent crime. That's a huge change."
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