Biden Justice Department 'manipulated' crime data to fit Democrats' narrative: retired police officer

A instrumentality enforcement expert is poking holes successful the now-former Biden medication Department of Justice's repeated claims that convulsive transgression sank to a 50-year grounds low, saying the bureau "manipulated data" to scope its conclusion.

In 2024, the Biden medication repeatedly claimed that convulsive transgression was astatine a 50-year low, based connected FBI statistics. The FBI defines the pursuing arsenic "violent crime": murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

But Ken Alexandrow, a information adept who served for 26 years arsenic a Nashville, Tennessee, constabulary officer, said the erstwhile medication "manipulated data" to scope a definite outcome. 

"The mode transgression statistic are developed is that constabulary departments astir the federation nonstop each their class 1 crimes, which are convulsive crimes, to the FBI. And past the FBI develops nationwide statistics," Alexandrow said. "But the changes hap erstwhile a caller medication comes in, and they alteration the reporting conditions."

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Then-President Joe Biden listens to his instauration earlier speaking to constabulary chiefs from crossed the state and members of his medication astatine the White House connected Feb. 28, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Change of reporting programs

The Biden administration did conscionable that, Alexandrow alleged. He said the medication changed reporting from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) programme to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

"If you inquire anybody connected the street, nary 1 volition archer you that they consciousness safer oregon that transgression is going down. However, it's the occupation of immoderate leader, whether they're local, authorities oregon federal, to marque your constituency consciousness safe. So however tin we bash that? Well, respective constabulary chiefs and metropolis managers person been successful occupation for manipulating stats," helium said.

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Alexandrow, who founded Agape Tactical LLC, said constabulary departments volition region "pieces of the pie" to amusement constituents that transgression is going down.

"A metropolis whitethorn region home murders 1 year, and past the adjacent they'll region drug-related murders truthful they're taking 2 pieces of the pastry out," helium said. "So to manipulate their statistics, they instrumentality sections of the colonisation retired to beryllium that they're doing their job."

"The authorities has done the aforesaid happening by changing the mode that transgression is reported," helium said.

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Percentage of constabulary departments not reporting

He said that successful 2023, 70% of constabulary departments that were reporting nether the UCR programme stopped reporting nether the NIBRS program.

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"And support successful mind, those are cities, including L.A., Chicago and New York City, on with 45% of Florida departments, not reporting," helium said. "When you person these large cities not reporting, you're going to person a tremendous driblet successful crimes and, therefore, your statistic and your percentages volition drop."

"When you person these large cities not reporting, you're going to person a tremendous driblet successful crimes …"

Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during his farewell ceremonial astatine the Department of Justice successful Washington connected Jan. 16, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In 2024, the Biden-Harris' DOJ reported a 17.5% alteration successful execution rates. There was besides a 7.1% alteration successful rape, 3.6% alteration successful aggravated battle and 7.8% diminution successful robbery implicit the archetypal 3 quarters of the year. 

Between 2021 and 2022, convulsive transgression decreased by 1.7%, which became a 3% alteration betwixt 2022 and 2023; and done the 2nd 4th of 2023 to 2024, it went down by 10.3%. In the aforesaid clip period, the execution complaint went down by 6.1%, starting from 2021 to 2022, by 11.6% successful 2023 and yet by 22.7% successful 2024.

The DOJ noted that the information was from 85 cities. They did not specify which cities reported.

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Then-President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris are shown astatine the White House connected April 11, 2022. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Biden admin antecedently shifting transgression stats

In 2022, the Biden administration's FBI softly updated its transgression information to amusement an summation successful convulsive crimes contempt erstwhile information showing convulsive crimes had fallen that year, which was touted arsenic a triumph for the administration.

The information was lauded by Democrats and the media arsenic portion of a turning constituent for transgression woes successful the U.S. aft the transgression question of 2020, erstwhile defund-the-police protests and riots swept the federation and the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders upended regular life.

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to the DOJ, the New York City Police Department, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Chicago Police Department for comment.

Fox News' David Spunt and Emma Colton contributed to this report.