(Washington Stand) During last week’s presidential debate, ABC News moderator David Muir echoed a recurrent claim by the Biden-Harris administration, stating, “The FBI says overall, violent crime is actually coming down in this country.” In fact, the latest data shows that levels of crime in the U.S. have risen dramatically over the last four years.
During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in March, he asserted, “Last year, the murder rate saw the sharpest decrease in history, and violent crime fell to one of the lowest levels in more than 50 years.” Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is repeating the claim on her campaign website, which states, “violent crime is at a 50-year low, with the largest single-year drop in murders ever.”
But experts say that both Harris and Biden are cherry-picking and distorting crime statistics in order to fit their preferred narrative. Last week, John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, joined “Washington Watch” to give a rundown of the most recent data. (Read More)
