New DOJ crime data appears to support Trump's debate claims about high crime rates WASHINGTON (TND) — The Department of Justice released a new report on Thursday showing that crime rates remain elevated under President Biden. This new data is challenging the narrative currently being pushed by the White House and the Kamala Harris campaign. It also highlights how difficult it is to get an accurate nationwide measure of where crime is actually trending. The DOJ numbers come from a massive annual government survey of crime victims. The report found 22.5 out of every 1,000 residents reported being the victim of a violent crime in 2023 and 102 of every 1,000 reported being the victim of a property crime. Both of these numbers are statistically unchanged from the year before. Both are also higher than 2020, the final year of Donald Trump’s first presidential term. This appears to back up claims crime remains higher under the Biden-Harris administration than under Trump.
That's quite some biased reporting you got there from a Sinclair Broadcast Group affiliate. Comparing the 2023 crime stats to 2020 -- when everyone was in lockdown for Covid is not a very valid comparison (and of course 2020 is the last year of Trump's term). Compare the 2023 results to 2019 -- and get back to us.
As Trump said, the real numbers are worse. Several Democrat controlled cities stopped reporting their crime statistics to the FBI.