I posted on laughable government statistics earlier today, went for the daily walk and returned to find yet another effort to skew statistics, this a 10-16-24 posting by CBS News.
The tale alluded to Donald Trump and Kamala Chameleon Harris sparring over crime numbers and, predictably, gave the nod on accuracy to the Chameleon.
The story prefers FBI figures, but neatly ignores that the FBI has come clean that their reported drop in violent crime in recent years has been revised to an increase. I guess all the Hate Trump types at CBS were too busy with that crusade, or editing Chameleon interviews, to notice that FBI stealth update.
There is another aspect to all of this that I didn’t get into in the previous blog post, but will here: Crime statistics mostly are based on reports to police and arrests, and an awful lot of crime is not showing up in these metrics.
Think of all the shoplifters in California who are careful to stay under $950 in total goods stolen on each encounter, which is the cutoff below which the authorities basically ignore the crime.
Think of all the illegal immigrants allowed into this country on ridiculous exemptions and go on to commit crimes that largely go unreported and unsolved. Again, the numbers fail to capture accurately the level of crime.
Think of thousands of people rioting and burning property, harming innocents, and generally taking over portions of major cities. But few if any get charged, so there is no crime committed, right? Give me a break!
Such bastardization of reality leads to the likes of the infamous CNN banner about mostly peaceful protests against a backdrop of flaming cars and buildings.
This sort of media sleight of hand helps explain why a record low of 31 percent of the U.S. population surveyed in Gallup polling trusts the LameStream media to be accurate.
Trust figures for the federal government and its bogus statistics, are higher, but still well below 50 percent.
Keep on mis-stating, massaging, and outright lying about the numbers and those trust numbers will continue to plumb record lows.
The public increasingly is catching on to the propaganda. Welcome to reality, people.
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