Quick Hit: About that crime data cited by ABC debate moderator
ABC's David Muir was quick to cite FBI crime data to rebut President Donald Trump's claim crime was rising
During the recent presidential debate, ABC debate moderator David Muir refuted President Donald Trump’s claim that crime was rising.
After Trump said crime was rising, including crime committed by illegal aliens, Muir told Trump, “as you know, the FBI says, overall, violent crime is actually coming down in this country.”
The Washington Examiner has an article and an accompanying video debunk of Muir’s claim.
Washington Examiner reported Trump hit Muir back, saying "the FBI’s statistics omitted cities with the “worst crime.”
“Excuse me, the FBI — they were defrauding statements,” Trump shot back at Muir. “They didn’t include the worst cities. They didn’t include the cities with the worst crime. It was a fraud.”
And Trump was correct.
Under Biden-Harris in 2021, the FBI started a new reporting system which excluded major cities like Los Angeles and New York City. Those two cities stopped reporting their numbers to the FBI, according to the Crime Prevention Resource Center.
At least 6,000 law enforcement agencies across the country didn’t provide data. In other words, 25% of the country's crime data was not being captured by the FBI’s quarterly unified crime statistics report.
If that looks familiar, it’s because I wrote about this back in June and last month, in August.
Ready for more? The 2023 National Crime Victimization Survey is out.
The Survey gives a better snapshot of what’s really happening when it comes to crime reporting. It tracks crime rates per 1,000 people over the age of 12 and shows crime is up.
The rate of violent crime spiked in 2022 at 9.8 per 1,000 people. However, per the Survey the overall victimization rate between 2022 and 2023 dropped a mere 1%, from 23.5 violent victimizations per 1,000 persons to 22.5.
Instances of reported violent crime overall (rape, robbery and aggravated assault) is up almost three points, from 5.6 in 2020 to 8.7 in 2023.
Aggravated assault- 2.9 in 2020 to 4.5 in 2023
Rape - 1.2 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2023
Robbery - 1.6 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2023
The Survey includes other forms of crime, all of which were up from 2019.
Car theft - 3.9 2019 to 6.1 in 2023
Stranger violence - 8.1 in 2019 to 11.4 in 2023
Violent crime with a weapon - 4.0 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2023
Quick Bonus Hit:
Internal campaign polling memo shows post-debate 2 point bump for Trump