When Kamala Harris and other Democrats brag that violent crime has gone down substantially during the Biden-Harris administration, and that it should, therefore, be a non-factor in this November’s presidential election, they’re often using faulty FBI statistics that don’t tell the whole story.

The inability to curb violent crime is actually one of Biden and Harris’ biggest failures over the past three and a half years, but you wouldn’t know that from a cursory look at the FBI’s statistics.

One of the problems with the FBI data, according to researcher John Lott, director of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), is that not all police agencies report crimes to the FBI; in fact, many stopped doing so in 2021 and 2022. This greatly skews the numbers.

According to Lott, prior to 2021, about 97% of police departments around the nation reported their crime data to the FBI; however, in 2021, 37% of police departments didn’t report their data. And in 2022, 31% of police departments, including those in big cities like New York City and Los Angeles, weren’t reporting their data to the FBI. Consequently, crime numbers appear substantially lower than they really are.

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