Welcome to Crossroads. The FBI has released new crime statistics showing that violent crime has dropped across the United States.

But the release is being used to fact-check these perceptions that crime has been growing in recent years

and the problem with that is that while other sources suggest that there's actually some some

nuance to this now first let's look at the official data from the fbi this is released on september 23rd

this is the official fbi statement it says this. The FBI's crime statistic estimates based on

reported data from 2023 show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 3% in 2020

compared to 2022 estimates. They note that murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2023 estimate nationwide decrease of 11.6% compared to the previous year. Big drop, they say. And also in 20203, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 9.4% decrease.

The note that aggravated assault figures decreased an estimated 2.8% 2023, and robbery

showed an estimated decrease of 0.3% nationally.

Now look, of course, it's an election year this year, so politics was going to be part of the media's reporting on these statistics. And if you look at what the media is saying about this, well, again, they're trying to fact-check Trump, again, with the recent political debates they had with him and Kamala Harris. And they're saying that he's lying about crime statistics and so on now there's

a bit of details to this because basically it ties into which set of data you're looking at but let me

show you first what mbc said NBC said this they said crime including serious violent incidents

like murder and rape,

dropped nationally from 2022 to 2023,

according to new data released by the FBI.

They say public perception of crime is often out of step with the facts,

especially in the age of social media,

ease of digital communications between neighbors and doorbell cameras,

when many Americans may be more aware of individual crimes than they would have been in the past.

Again, you know, the flood of information, all of us are watching Twitter and other things

like that, and we're seeing all these videos of crime and again, that's forming our perceptions of,

but that's what they're suggesting. Now, they note that during a campaign stop and

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