SNIP The Appeal, a news organization which focuses on the criminal legal system, has also pointed out that 50% of violent crimes, and 70% of property crimes, are never reported to the police – meaning those crimes will be missed in the data. (this is always true, and crime within immigrant communities isn't reported well, used to be though)

Nonetheless, the prominent New Orleans-based crime analyst Jeff Asher told NBC News in an article published on Tuesday that the preliminary numbers were encouraging.

“It suggests that when we get the final data in October, we will have seen likely the largest one-year decline in murder that has ever been recorded,” Asher said.

Asher also told NBC it was possible that local governments’ managing to resume certain anti-crime initiatives that were interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic may have had a hand in the reduction shown in the FBI’s preliminary data.

Earlier this month, Trump claimed falsely that “migrant violence is leading to the worst crime wave in history”(bullsh!t) as Republicans have sought to accuse Democrats of being soft on crime.

theguardian.com - FBI data shows US crime plummeted