Crime statistics compiled by the FBI and other sources show an increase in violent crime, notably murders, in 2020 and a decline since. A revision to the FBI data this year doesn’t change that overall trend, despite claims made on social media and by the Trump campaign to the contrary.
Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators comes less than three weeks before Election Day.
We fact-checked Biden’s speech — which included many claims we’ve heard before — as well as the remarks of other speakers.
Former President Donald Trump said FBI data that show homicides and other violent crimes trending down are “fake numbers.” They’re not.
The most recent statistical measures of how the U.S. has changed since the president took office.
Statistical indicators of President Trump’s four years in office.
On Twitter, the House Republican Conference posted an image of rising homicide rates in seven cities with this bit of misleading commentary: “Welcome to President Biden’s America.”
A raging virus, a struggling economy and a fast-growing mountain of debt.
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
President Donald Trump and his son Eric both took shots this week at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, saying crime has risen in the city under his leadership. That’s wrong, according to crime data kept by the New York Police Department.