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Dr. Lott’s held a press briefing on Friday on our work on the rise in crime over the last few years.
Dr. John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, also shared startling statistics about the rise in unreported violent crimes during President Biden and Harris’ tenure.
“If you look at total violent crime during the Trump administration, it fell by 17% and it’s increased by 43% under the Biden administration,” Lott said, citing data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
“There’s no time in our history where we’ve had recorded data for total violent crime that we’ve seen such a large increase,” he added, pointing to the last report on criminal victimization released by the DOJ bureau in 2022.
Before 2020, Lott explained, both the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the FBI “generally moved along together” in the numbers that were reported, but have since “moved in opposite directions each year, often by very large amounts.”
“While the FBI showed a 2% drop in reported violent crime, the national crime victimization data showed a 42% increase in violent crime,” he said citing 2022 figures. . . .
