How The Media Are Lying Right Now: 'Violent Crime Drops' Edition

And it comes surely by coincidence as freshly anointed Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris gives herself a makeover as a hard ass on crime rather than the effusive “defund the police” candidate she ran as in 2020. - Eddie Scarry 

• ...starting with what Axios admitted in its own report — that some states and cities, including the biggest one, New York, aren’t disclosing their violent crime numbers, or they fail to submit them to organizations like the FBI. 
• It’s similar to when Democrats and the media claim that more violent crime is taking place in red states than blue ones, while deliberately concealing that it’s concentrated in Democrat-run metropolises with elected Democrat prosecutors and mayors.
• But more importantly, Democrats and their co-conspirators in the media are deliberately specifying “violent crime,” rather than simply “crime,” for a reason. Violent crime, broadly speaking, includes murder, homicide, and assault...