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Our friend, John Anthony, the Truth Monster, explains how the press' tortured DC crime claims offer a master class on how the media spreads disinformation.
They’ve done it with climate fears, COVID terror, Russiagate, BLM riots, COVID origins, safe and effective, economy, election integrity, and crime statistics.
To spread disinfo, the media seeks an ‘expert’ to verify the falsehood. To prove DC crime was falling the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) was the obvious pick.
Comparing the UCR from past years to 2024 shows DC crimes dropping.
There’s one problem. The FBI warns the viewers NOT to use the data “in making any direct comparison between data in this publication and those in prior issues of Crime in the United States” because of reporting problems.
FBI Warning on Data Use
“Caution to users. Data users should exercise care in making any direct comparison between data in this publication and those in prior issues of Crime in the United States. Because of differing levels of participation from year to year and reporting problems that require the FBI to estimate crime counts for certain contributors, some data may not be comparable from year to year. In addition, this publication may contain updates to data provided in prior years’ publications.”
Here are some of the “reporting problems”.
Changing crime definitions:
Each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia have their own method and criteria for adding info to the UCR. Often different states at differing times change their rules for crime data collection creating confusion in interpreting and comparing the data.
Data gaps:
Local law enforcement decides which data to send to the state, the state then streamlines that data and what is left goes to the FBI.
Reluctance to call police:
Research in PubMed shows increasingly, people in minority communities and high risk populations are unwilling to call the police.
Hiding crimes:
- According to the Brennan Center for Justice and studies from Utah State University, frequent department quotas can create underreporting and misclassification of crimes.
- In New York, many victims struggled to persuade police to make official note of a crime event. In 2009 NYPD created a department rule requiring robbery victims to go to the station house to give their report resulting in fewer reported crimes. This was later reversed.
- A TV 10 San Diego study reveals the SD Police Department undercounts crimes they submit to the FBI.
- As for DC, in July a Metropolitan Department police commander, was placed on leave and is under investigation for manipulating crime data to make it appear crime is decreasing.
The Only Accurate Data
According to data analyst, Jim Agresti Founder of Just Facts, the most reliable way to measure crime trends is the number of murders. These tragedies leave a body that must be identified, a certificate filed, and a record of the person’s burial. The numbers tell the real story and are staggering.
• Murder is the most violent and accurately measured crime, and the D.C. murder rate in 2024 was 83% higher than in 2012.
• The murder rate in D.C. is currently 5 times the U.S. average.
• In 2023, D.C. had the 4th highest murder rate of all big cities in the nation.
• The U.S. crime surge of 2020 isn’t associated with the onset of the Covid pandemic and is strongly associated with the Black Lives Matter riots.
• Roughly 17,000 murders were committed in the U.S. during 2024.
• At the current murder rate, roughly 1 in every 230 people in the U.S. will have their lives cut short by murder. [The source lists a figure of 220 for 2023, but the figure is roughly 230 based on 2024 data.]
• The murder rate in D.C. is currently 5 times the U.S. average.
• In 2023, D.C. had the 4th highest murder rate of all big cities in the nation.
• The U.S. crime surge of 2020 isn’t associated with the onset of the Covid pandemic and is strongly associated with the Black Lives Matter riots.
• Roughly 17,000 murders were committed in the U.S. during 2024.
• At the current murder rate, roughly 1 in every 230 people in the U.S. will have their lives cut short by murder. [The source lists a figure of 220 for 2023, but the figure is roughly 230 based on 2024 data.]
Why This Matters
It’s not just crime data. Today disinformation blankets our country like Mt. St. Helens’ fallout. The residue creates competing sets of ‘facts’ and that dissonance tears Americans apart. The truth is no longer based on science, data, or medicine, but on who wields the most perceived ‘authority’, loudest voice, and greatest reach.
While the traditional legacy media is weakening its hold on attentions, it remains powerful and one of the most dangerous spreaders of false information.
Events like the media’s response to the rising DC crime rate reveal their calculated corruption with a clarity that helps more people recognize the true deceivers.
This same sleight of hand was used in “proving the settled science of CO2 as a pollutant”. Though the CO2 study data covered only a brief period of time, the news was fed to the media which blanketed the nation and eventually the world ultimately leading to the Sustainable Development, Green New Deal, and Net Zero policies that are destroying energy systems.
The media pushed the COVID ‘vaccine’s’ 95% mantra failing to explain the real world effectiveness was less than 1% while severely downplaying the multiple serious adverse effects. This has damaged people lives, destroyed the credibility of the medical community, and turned neighbor against neighbor.
Records reveal our federal agencies fed the Russia collusion fraud to the media which trumpeted it daily for months, altering the truth and pitting those who suspected corruption against the deluge of official sounding reports.
Our citizens can only find common ground to unite when we see through the lies and recognize our true enemies.
Truth Monster John Anthony is a national speaker, researcher, founder of the Sustainable Freedom Lab, and an expert on HUD and property rights infringements click here to subscribe to his must-read Substack. The Truth Monster is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support its work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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- Kash Patel
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- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR)
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- Crime in the United States
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- Trump crime crackdown
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- sustainable development
- COVID pandemic
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