Last month i posted this article regarding Dr Lott’s latest discovery of a surge in violent crime that didn’t jibe with FBI stats.
Since then he’s posted several articles here, here, here, here and here, leading up to and following the FBI’s scandalously quiet “nothing to see here folks” revision of its 2022 data, resulting in an incredible 6.6% swing from a putative 2.1% drop in violent crime, to an alarming 4.5% surge in violent crime. Other stories here, here, and here.
The erroneous data was actually used to improperly and unfairly fact check Donald Trump in his ABC debate with my classmate, but Trump stayed confident in his assertion, probably because of Lott’s persistent research.
This is a major black eye for the FBI. Given the many other instances of suspicious conduct by the FBI, the understatement may well have been intentional and might have gone unnoticed if not for “those pesky kids” at Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center.
