House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has given a hard deadline to FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide documentation related to what he claims is the doctoring of information related to violent crime in the United States.
Concretely, Jordan was referring to data showing "a 2.1 percent decrease in violent crime across the country from 2021 to 2022" that was last month revised to "show that violent crime had actually increased by 4.5 percent from 2021."
"The FBI did not publicize its revision of 2022 violent crime data, and the only way to see this change is to download the FBI's updated crime data and compare it to the previous year," the lawmaker said in a letter, adding that the update was not mentioned in a press release about violent crime data for 2023 either.
"The FBI's revision of violent crime data confirms what our oversight has shown: the Biden-Harris crime epidemic continues to escalate and far-left state and local policymakers place the interests of criminals over the needs of their communities," adds a passage of the letter, which goes on to list a series of statistics to support its claims.
For that reason, Jordan demanded that Wray provide a series of related material, including all "documents communications referring or relating to the FBI's process for updating" the data; and "all documents and communications referring or relating to the actions taken by the FBI to publicly correct the misstatement that crime in 2022 had decreased in the United States." The deadline to do so is November 21.
Jordan also asked to arrange a staff-level briefing to "discuss the FBI's review of pertinent FBI procedures and protocols involving UCR statistics for years 2022 and 2023 and the FBI's process of discovering errors in the 2022 UCR statistics and their plans to improve their gross negligence going forward." The deadline to arrange the meeting is also November 21.
Originally published on Latin Times.
