We're not reporting crimes cuz we don't trust the government to protect us!-----Democrats hide the rise in violent crime with tricky stats

Between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump — and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022. - John Lott

• “Make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz warned in his first speech as Kamala Harris’ running mate.
• “If you look this up at home,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claimed last month, “you will know that crime went down under Biden and crime went up under Trump. Why would America want to go back to the higher crime we experienced under Donald Trump?”

But the opposite is true: Between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump — and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022.
...But Democrats and the media don’t understand the difference between the number of crimes reported to police and the total number of crimes.
There are two measures of crime: 

• One, the FBI’s NIBRS, counts the number of crimes reported to police yearly.
• The other, the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey, asks about 240,000 people each year whether they have been victims of crime, in an attempt to measure both reported and unreported crimes....
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