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Bad reporting

October 1, 2024 by Guest Post

by Bill Cavanaugh, Corvallis

In 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration changed the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) to completely voluntary. Since then, 30 of the largest cities in the country have not reported crime statistics to the FBI. Cities include Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Seattle, Dallas etc. The FBI without accurate data uses….. “estimates.”

Throw in that many of these cities have “re-imagined policing” and installed Soros-backed judges who do not prosecute crimes, leading to fewer arrests and prosecutions and you get the most inaccurate reporting imaginable.

The truth is, as per the Bureau of Justice, that Rape, Robbery and Aggravated Assault are up 55% under Biden/Harris.

Much Like in 2022 when we had two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, and the Biden/Harris Admin changed the definition that has been in place for decades to say that is not the definition of “recession.” The truth is that it is, and we were in recession, regardless of their definition.

Couple in the fact that the Jobs report is padded every month by this administration and has been reduced every month under cover of darkness and unbeknownst to average Americans. I’m sure most did not know that June and July were adjusted down by 60,000 jobs and in July they adjusted down the first quarter of 2024 by 825,000 jobs! Also, in August foreign-born workers’ jobs increased by 635,000. Native-born American jobs decreased by 1,325,000!  

So their jobs numbers are overinflated and skewed, they change the definition of inflation so as to not look like the incompetent fools they are, and lie about crime statistics.

Looks like old David Muir owes the American people and Donald Trump an apology.

 

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  1. Bill Cavanaugh says

    October 4, 2024 at 9:59 AM

    I typically don’t give people who rely on Rachel Maddow for information, but here ya go.

    The Bureau of Justice Statistics
    The Bureau of labor statistics.

    Have a nice Day

    • WMA says

      October 4, 2024 at 11:34 AM

      Bill, you have to do better than that. You made the claim; copy and paste the proof.

      • Bill Cavanaugh says

        October 4, 2024 at 3:03 PM

        I’ve got better things to do than do your Homework Wayne.
        It’s 100% fact, and just because you’re too uninformed to know these things is not my fault. Your news Outlets (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS,MSNBC, CNN etc…) WILL NEVER REPORT ANYTHING DETRIMENTAL TO DEMOCRATS, because they are government controlled propaganda.
        The Wall Streeet Journal Reported it. A CNBC reporter asked Gina Raimondo about it who said it was “Trump Disinformation”. Then the CNBC reporter said “It’s on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website”
        Raimondo looked like a deer in the headlights caught in another lie.
        I accept your apology

        • WMA says

          October 4, 2024 at 6:32 PM

          Put up or shut up. My preference is, of course, shut up.

          • Gomez says

            October 4, 2024 at 7:51 PM

            Bill was told that there wouldn’t be fact checking. 🙂

          • Bill Cavanaugh says

            October 6, 2024 at 9:15 AM

            Let me Translate that..
            “Oh Look…. Bill is right and I’ve got nothing”

    • Howard S. says

      October 4, 2024 at 2:31 PM

      Haven’t found anything close to what you’re claiming at either of those sites.

      • Bill Cavanaugh says

        October 4, 2024 at 2:57 PM

        Not my fault. Because it is there. IF you watched any business channel (Bloomberg, CNBC, FBN) you’d know these things.

        • Gomez says

          October 7, 2024 at 12:22 PM

          Ah, the old “I saw it on TV….” defense. 🙂

  2. WMA says

    October 1, 2024 at 6:46 PM

    Once again, Bill, if you want anyone to take you seriously, you need to back up all your highly questionable claims with sources. Reliable sources.

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