Hi everybody, Cheryl Atkinson here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, whether it's America's violent crime rate as measured by the FBI or crimes committed by illegal immigrants, expert John Lott says there are countless ways the statistics and our minds are being

manipulated. As you may know, there is an ongoing debate over whether crime in America has gone up or

down under the Biden administration. There are other debates as well, such as how illegal immigration has

impacted the crime rate in America. This became a presidential election issue. You may recall

during the one debate between President-elect Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Democrat candidate

at the time, Trump referred to the rising violent crime rate only to have the moderator do,

well, let's call it, a fake fact check and claim that the FBI statistics in essence

proved that that's not true.

Well, there's a lot more behind that story.

Shortly after the debate, the FBI quietly revised its statistics online and what had looked like a drop in violent crime actually became a significant increase.

There are reasons why all of this is occurring. And this week on full measure, Sunday, January 12th, I dig into the whole thing with

the help of an expert on crime statistics, John Lott. Among other things, Lott has served as a senior

advisor for research and statistics in the Department of Justice. He's going to make your head spin,

but in a very interesting way,

when it comes to all the statistics that are used to prove a certain point and how he says they

are being misused and manipulated more often than they used to be anyways by the federal government.

Here is my interview with John Lott.

I mean, I've served as a senior advisor for research and statistics in the Department of Justice

for the Office of Justice programs and then the Office of Legal Policy. I was chief economist

for the United States Sentencing Commission, and I've been an academic most of my life.

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