When Trump argued that “crime in this country is through the roof,” Muir inserted himself into the debate, jumping to the administration’s defense armed with the FBI data saying, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”
In an Op-Ed to The Wall Street Journal Jeffrey H. Anderson, the former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2017-21, wrote, “Excluding simple assault — the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony — the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019, the last year before the defund-the-police movement swept the country.”
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/the-harris-biden-crime-wave-is-real-the-media-just-won-t-report-it