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2025-02-18 Government Corruption

Trump's FBI Reforms Need To Include Ending Its Data Distortions On Crime

A taste:

[Federalist] The FBI doesn’t just have a transparency problem. They’re actually distorting data to skew important crime statistics.

There is a lot of attention on the Trump administration removing dozens of Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials involved in charging 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, but one area of politicization in the FBI and DOJ that isn’t getting attention: crime data.

The ability to manipulate and distort crime data allows those distorting the data to control the political debate.

I’ve seen many cases of politicized data. Until January 2021, I worked in the U.S. Department of Justice as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the Office of Justice Programs, and part of my job was to evaluate the FBI’s active shooting reports. During my time with the DOJ, I discovered that the FBI either missed or misidentified many cases of civilians using guns to stop attacks. For instance, the FBI continues to report that armed citizens stopped only 14 of the 350 active shooter cases identified between 2014 to 2023.

The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), which I run, has found many more missed cases and is keeping an updated list. As such, the CPRC numbers tell a much different story: Out of 515 active shooter incidents from 2014 to 2023, armed citizens stopped 180, saving countless innocent lives. Our numbers even excluded 27 cases where a law-abiding citizen with a gun stopped an attacker before he could fire a shot.

Overall, the CPRC estimates that law-abiding citizens with guns have stopped more than 35 percent of active shootings over the last decade and 39.6 percent in the last five years. This figure is almost nine times higher than the four percent estimate made by the FBI.

This figure increases even more when looking only at areas where citizens are legally allowed to carry a firearm. After all, you can’t expect that law-abiding citizens will stop attacks in gun-free zones. In places where law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry firearms, we estimate that armed civilians stopped 51 percent of active shootings over the past decade.

Unfortunately, the FBI dataset is missing so many defensive gun uses that it’s hard to believe it is accidental, and especially as they also never corrected mistakes that I brought to their attention. Since we list out each case and link to the underlying sources, no one needs to take our word for these missing or misidentified cases.

The FBI also has a big transparency problem, and their actions came to a head during last year’s presidential election. For a year, the media used the FBI’s estimates of reported crime for 2022 to claim that crime was falling under the Biden administration. Relying on the 2022 data, news headlines like NPR asserted: “Violent crime is dropping fast in the US — even if Americans don’t believe it.”

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ] Top
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#1 Seems like a lot of turnover in our corrupt institutions. We may have to borrow bureaucrats from the UN on an emergency basis to shore up our scams and boondoggles.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-18 05:00|| 2025-02-18 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Congress unmasks perils of 'Beijing Biden' era: China's expanding mass espionage efforts

The problem has become so pervasive that the FBI now opens a Chinese counterintelligence operations roughly every 12 hours, House panel says.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-18 06:38|| 2025-02-18 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3

In some minor defense of the Dept Of Justice and FBI.

In 2021, after Biden controllers stole the 2020 election, and quickly took control applying coup type edicts via Federal agency figurehead installed leaders.

It was clear the LSD's then quickly took steps, to do a political CYA for their crime-ridden politically controlled Metro's and states. All while they were screaming, DEFUND THE POLICE, and hamstringing Police.

Then, the US HAD A CRIME DATA REPORTING PROBLEM. Note: See the Biggest Offenders section in the link.

So a majority of the blame clearly belongs to Biden's controllers, and the LSD's Coup leaders, which hid or avoided submission of the real Crime data.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-18 08:01|| 2025-02-18 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 This is exactly why we have Soviet statistical reporting. The Bureau of Labor Statistics isn't any better.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-18 08:28|| 2025-02-18 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I would be happy if they just were consistent, and didn't change the rules without telling everyone.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-02-18 13:26|| 2025-02-18 13:26|| Front Page Top

#6 They also had a serious leadership problem at the top as well as a weaponization problem against so-called political enemies.

Posted by JohnQC 2025-02-18 17:56|| 2025-02-18 17:56|| Front Page Top

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