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.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
It’s really incredible they’re trying this approach after 4 years of posting “Ridin’ with Biden” memes.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
