Sharyl Attkinson is a reporter who hosts the Sinclair Broadcast Group TV show Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. She is a five-time Emmy Award winner and a Radio Television Digital News Association (RTNDA) Edward R. Murrow Award recipient. She previously worked for PBS, CNN, and CBS.
I asked the FBI what accounted for the correction in their violent crime stats for 2022: Did the agency undercount violent crime? I also asked why FBI trends are opposite The National Crime Victimization Survey? They didn’t answer those questions but said there will be increasing transparency. And they say that big cities like New York and Los Angeles resumed reporting their crime statistics to the FBI in 2023, when the FBI claims, again, that violent crime went down.
Sharyl Attkinson, “Low police, victim participation in violent crime reporting undermines Dem cities touting declines,” Just the News, January 11, 2025.
A more complete discussion from Sharyl Attkinson is available here:
“Crime here is up and through the roof despite their fraudulent statements that they made, crime in this country is through the roof,” Trump said at the Sept. 10, 2024, debate in Philadelphia. “And we have a new form of crime and it’s called migrant crime. And it’s happening at levels nobody thought possible.”
Debate moderator David Muir of ABC News interrupted: “President Trump as you know the FBI says that overall is actually coming down in this country.” . . .
Trump may have known something the debate moderator didn’t, according to John Lott, a crime data analyst and former senior adviser for Research and Statistics in the Justice Department, which oversees the FBI. . . . .
“The reason why we have this national crime victimization data is we know most crimes aren’t reported to police,” Lott says. “About 40% of violent crimes are reported to police. About 30% of property crimes are reported to police. Before 2020, those numbers tended to go up and down together, the reported and the National Crime Victimization data.
Since 2020, they’ve been going in completely opposite directions. So for example, in 2022, while the FBI showed a 2% drop in violent crime, reported violent crime, the National Crime Victimization data showed a 42% increase in violent crime. That’s the largest yearly increase we’ve ever seen in that measure. And that’s going back 50 years.”
To punctuate the point, after the Trump-Harris debate, Lott discovered the FBI quietly revised its 2022 figures from a 2.1% drop in violent crime to a 4.5% increase. That makes a total rise of 6.6%. That includes 80,000 violent crimes that had gone uncounted: 33,000 additional robberies, 37,000 extra aggravated assaults, 7,000 more rapes, and 1,700 added murders.
I asked the FBI what accounted for the correction in their violent crime stats for 2022: Did the agency undercount violent crime? I also asked why FBI trends are opposite The National Crime Victimization Survey? They didn’t answer those questions but said there will be increasing transparency. And they say that big cities like New York and Los Angeles resumed reporting their crime statistics to the FBI in 2023, when the FBI claims, again, that violent crime went down.
Sharyl Attkinson, “Low police, victim participation in violent crime reporting undermines Dem cities touting declines,” Just the News, January 11, 2025.
The weponization of the FBI and a host of other federal agencies has fueled crime in support of political agendas for generations of Americans. To clean house you need to do more than cut the proverbial head off the snake. When the rot is this bad, the institution needs to be heavily pruned of its top brass. Perhaps the new buzz word in Washington will be “De-bureaucratization”