We're going to make all their havens as unsafe as possible. The two say serious crime is actually down instead of up. And, they say, the misleading nature of the report is due to the way the FBI compiles its data. The statistics as they present them are very raw. Media experts agree that it can be dangerous to present the untrained public with objective facts without accompanying analysis.
Independent thought can lead to all manner of unexpected consequences.
Vasquez and Lee offered examples of how the FBI may overstate crime rates. Some crimes such as assaults may later be upgraded to murder if a victim dies and the FBI counts it as one assault and one murder. Crimes that are reported but later turn out to be false reports are also reported raw to the FBI and counted in their totals. These local yokels never compare the subtotals to the grand-totals. We release reports that overall crime is down nationwide, then we release local numbers showing that crime is up in all localities.