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Retired NY detective explains how Biden admin manipulated crime data: ‘Doesn’t take a quantitative genius’

August 15, 2024 | | Print Article

A former New York Police Department detective says the Biden administration is lying about a supposed drop in violent crime.

In a statement released last week, President Joe Biden dubiously claimed that “violent crime is at a 50-year low” because of his otherwise garbage policies.

“This did not happen by accident,” he said. “Our American Rescue Plan – opposed by every Republican in Congress – delivered $15 billion to cities and states to invest in public safety and violence prevention, keeping cops on the beat while working with community leaders to interrupt and prevent crime.”

“I also signed the most significant gun violence legislation in nearly 30 years which is keeping guns out of dangerous hands by expanding background checks and helping states implement ‘red flag’ laws,” he added.

But speaking with Fox News, former NYPD detective Darrin Porcher called bull:

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“I am a firm believer in statistics or at the behest of the beholder, meaning that if you are the person that’s the holder of statistics, you can chart a course that better fits the bill for what you’re trying to express,” Porcher said.

“That is clearly what the White House is doing in this particular article. But it just doesn’t take a quantitative genius to identify that crime is up,” he added.

He continued by arguing that in reality, there’s been a “meteoric rise” in crime under Biden’s tutelage.

“There’s been a meteoric rise in crime over the last three years under the Biden administration, as we relate to either the migrant crisis, violent crimes that are occurring in the cities or the counties that common citizens live in,” he said.

“Perception is key. Whenever we as a public perceive that crime is higher, that is when it is incumbent on the government to enforce the rule of law,” he added.

The problem, Porcher continued, is that the Biden Department of Justice has been using the flawed Uniform Crime Report (UCR) to reach its obviously bogus conclusions. But the UCR doesn’t give the “full picture” of crime, he said.

“You have many instances where a person reports a crime saying that their car was stolen, but then they find it maybe 2 or 3 days later and it wasn’t stolen, they just forgot where they parked in,” he explained. “That crime is already listed on the Uniform Crime Report. There’s no one that goes back and places an addendum on it.”

Because of how the UCR works, Porcher added, it can easily be used to manipulate crime data in a certain direction.

“The UCR Uniform Crime Report can be skewed in a direction that’s either favorable or unfavorable in terms of the increase or the decrease in crime,” he said. “And this is what the White House is touting as the standard-bearer. I beg to differ because we need a more qualitative approach.”

The corporate propaganda press used to feel the same way. When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, claimed in 2021 that Florida’s crime rate had reached a 50-year low, the media rushed to debunk him by citing some of the same complaints as Porcher.

“Across the country, law enforcement agencies’ inability — or refusal — to send their annual crime data to the FBI has resulted in a distorted picture of the United States’ crime trends, according to a new Stateline analysis of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program participation data,” the States Newsroom reported at the time.

“We have policymakers making policy based on completely incomplete data,” Jeff Asher, a data analyst and co-founder of AH Datalytics, told the paper. “We have political elections being determined based on vibes rather than actual data. It’s a mess.”

No kidding!

Speaking with Fox News, Porcher also addressed Biden’s “red flag” laws.

“I think that gun control means well, but I don’t believe that it works, because in the United States, we have more guns and people,” he said. “You’re closing the gate after the horse has already escaped.”

“I genuinely believe the best course of action in terms of reducing gun violence is to have the necessary interdiction by law enforcement, meaning enforce the laws that are on the books. If you’re enforcing the laws that are on the books, then you’re going to gain precipitous drops in gun violence. But if you rely upon merely the gun control method, it’s only going to allow criminals to acquire firearms, and the law-abiding citizens deterred,” he added.

Looking ahead, Porcher urged Americans to look to big blue metropolitan cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City for an idea of what awaits them so long as Democrats remain in power.

“When we speak to what’s happening in the larger cities, history is the best teller of what lies in the future,” he said. “If you don’t pay attention, you’re going to embark upon the same mistakes that happened in the past.”

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