This charge that the FBI omitted data from LA and New Orleans spread like wildfire on the right, but it’s totally bogus. What makes it particularly egregious is that in the screen shots Price posted, you’d need to scroll past the homicide numbers to get to those sections. Which means I doubt this was an honest misunderstanding of the data.
▪️The reason there is “no data” in the screenshots for these cities is they didn’t report demographic data of the offenders/victims. So you can’t search things like age or relationship to the offender. But they DID report homicides, and homicides fell in both LA and New Orleans from 2022-23. You can see the data for yourself in the link (I’ll also post the charts in the comments)
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend
▪️There’s plenty of debate about crime rates, as factors like reporting, what constitutes violent/property crimes, prosecution, etc. can confound the stats. Heck, the fact that retail stores in some cities are now locking up most of their items probably helps lower the rate of thefts, but doesn’t change the fact that you live in a crime ridden hellscape.
▪️But homicide is the one metric that is pretty reliable. If someone is killed it gets reported and documented. Like it or not (you should like it!) murders have fallen over the past few years in this country. Trying to lie about that is dumb.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
