FBI

Introduction In a recent blog post, I explored the FBI’s underreporting of violent crime in New York City for 2023, raising concerns about the reliability of its national crime statistics. John Lott, writing for the New York Post, revealed that the FBI quietly revised its national violent crime rates for 2021 and 2022 in its 2023 report. This revision shows

Today, the FBI released its updated crime data for 2023, which continues to raise questions about its accuracy. In a previous blog article, I demonstrated that from 2001 to 2022, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) consistently reported higher violent crime statistics for New York City than those provided by the NYC Police Department. This discrepancy may be partly due

Between 2001 and 2022, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) consistently reported higher violent crime statistics for New York City compared to the figures provided by the NYC Police Department. This discrepancy can be partly attributed to the differing definitions of crime used by the FBI and the NYPD. Although New York City employs a similar classification for major violent