The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly found that Democrat politicians are skewing crime statistics in an attempt to falsely state that crime is on the decline under their leadership leading into next year’s midterm elections.
According to a new report from Charles Gasparino for The New York Post, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker – who is reportedly eyeing a White House bid in 2028 – may be one of the worst offenders in this ongoing scheme that makes blue cities look far less dangerous than they actually are.
According to “official” state and local government data, Chicago has allegedly seen double-digit declines in crime rates, with the governor stating that “shootings and homicides on our highways are down 60, 70, 80 percent depending on where you look.” But as Gasparino explains, this decline is only because the city’s “woke prosecutors are knocking down felonies to something less severe for political reasons.” He added that the same is happening in other blue cities as well, such as New York, Los Angeles, and Portland.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is also notorious for downgrading felonies, according to Gasparino. While Bragg infamously used a “novel legal theory” to upgrade misdemeanor charges to felony charges against President Donald Trump in 2024, he has “continued to allow violent offenders to plead to misdemeanors instead of felonies even after committing robberies or violent assaults.”
One such case was that of David Mazariegos, who “was arrested last week for the allegedly unprovoked killing of straphanger Nicola Tanzi, stomping him on the head repeatedly outside a Brooklyn subway station.” Despite Mazariegos having a criminal record, a judge let him off a previous assault charge with just a misdemeanor before he finally killed someone. Bragg declined to prosecute the initial assault as a felony – an act that likely would have saved Tanzi’s life.
“Mazariegos has a long criminal record and yet this past July, just before his latest alleged wanton act, an NYC judge lowered his bail in an assault case because prosecutors didn’t charge him with a felony and instead settled for a misdemeanor,” Gasparino said.
As AMAC Newsline has previously reported, in July a commander in the Washington, D.C. Police Department was also suspended for allegedly changing crime statistics to make things seem better than they actually were.
Fraternal Order of Police President Gregg Pemberton explained that law enforcement officers are often told by their superiors to report crimes as lower offenses. “Instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification,” he said.
That revelation came following Trump’s decision to federalize the DCPD and deploy the National Guard to restore order to the streets of the nation’s capital. High-profile Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, had been falsely claiming that crime in the city was actually at a 30-year-low.
This strategy is nothing new for Democrats. As AMAC Newsline reported last September, under the Biden administration the FBI abruptly changed its reporting system, resulting in crime statistics being incomplete for cities accounting for a full 25 percent of the country’s population. Despite this glaring hole in the data, the Biden White House declared that it had reduced crime nationwide.
Now, the Trump Department of Justice and FBI are correcting those errors. Americans may soon finally know just how dangerous their cities are – and just how much Democrats have failed them.
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
Is anything trustworthy from dems? They’ll say anything to get elected and once they’re in, do everything to stay there. They can’t help it, they’ve been doing it for so long, it’s all they know. But it’s the voters that count, sheep that will believe everything they’re told and willingly swallow everything they’ve heard, then wonder what happened.
Not skewing crime statistics but knowingly deliberately deceiving voters, lying to constituents, altering the facts and hiding the truth, doing it to save their political hides, safety of the citizens is the least of their concerns. Abdicating their duties and still in the office.
As stated above, “crime” can go down if [1] illegal things are redefined as legal; and [2] felonies are bumped down to misdemeanors. However, just as many people are killed, raped, or robbed regardless of DIMM shenanigans!
The democrats in charge,lying? Really!!! That is nothing new. They have lied since 2008 and are still at it to date. They are lying to close the country and have the country go broke. So they can say see Trump did it. You can’t win against this evil cult the democrats have become. Only by voting them out. They take no responsibility for anything they have done. They inducted a president on flimsy charges but murderers and rapist can go free. After all these criminals are their army to kill their opponents. Lawlessness they promote, law and order they call Gestapo tactics.
The Democratic Party and the News Media are all liars as well as enemies to America and the true American People!!! They are also attacking and killing true Americans and getting away with it!!! We must stand up and defend ourselves against the evil and the enemies of America!!!
I’ve been saying it for years that the people should vote them out of office. By voting them out of power and vote for honest people who will do what’s right then and only then will we be able to get our country back!!!
A dem/lib/commie/socialist lying????? OMG What has the world come to…????
Oh yeah they are fudging the facts about real crime, somehow Yonkers, NY, the second largest city in NYS, right next door to NYC is supposedly the 5th safest city in the USA. They just don’t include certain crimes that do occur in their reporting—so selective reporting as if they expect that everyone is drinking the Koolaid.
“The Dumba$$ocrat$ say…”
Does ANYDAMNTHING they say have ANY truth to it?!
Be still my heart! Democrats lying? I’ve never heard such a thing ???? Democrats are not capable of telling the truth. And the biggest oxymoron in the world is using Democrat and intelligence in the same sentence. I believe the CCP and the Democrat party exactly the same amount. As a matter of fact I would believe my sister telling me the electric fence is off go ahead and touch it karma before I would believe anything the CCP or the Democrat party says. Can I make it more plain but I feel? History has borne me out
I’m not the least bit surprised. Liberals/democrats lie, cheat and steal. Sadly, there are millions of idiots who take the liberal lies as gospel, and keep voting them into power. These idiots deserve the communist policies that get forced on them.
Never a dull moment when exposing these Democrats.
I think that I’ll throw another bag of popcorn on to watch the fun of their crack divisions of damage control responding to this.
Right, don’t believe your lying eyes
Trump pulled back from flooding San Francisco due to claims of the mayor Lurie who asked for time to keep up their enforcement progress. I wonder if Newsom has his nose in there.
Democrats once again prove “You can’t fix Stupid!”
Is anyone surprised?
Dems are simply unable to tell the truth. Just a simple fact.
When a Democrat opens his or her mouth, they are LYING. When they fudge the stats for crime or ANY other stat, they are AGAIN LYING THEIR MEGA CORRRUPT A$$ OFF.
DAMNOCRAPS LOVE, SUPPORT AND WILL DEFEND ALL ILLEGAL SCUM AND OTHER LOW-LIFE CRIMINALS AT ALL COSTS. THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT AMERICA ORR AMERICANS.
DEMOCRATS ARE THE TRUE ENEMIES WITHIN AMERICA.
Lie, cheat, steal – it’s the Democrat way.
WONT work
I was very disappointed in Trump last week when he threw the F bomb out on public media. And this is the 2nd time this year. I am a baby boomer & yes I did get my mouth washed out with soap when in grade school for a word not nearly as bad. Then today, in meeting at WH he said Democrats are cursing too much & that it is okay to say F bomb every 7th meeting but not all the time. Trump is our POTUS and should stop this language which Trump and Vance seem to think this is just locker room talk. Come on man & I am sure I will get a bunch of replies to this telling me to go back to Sunday school and the Fifties.
Libs would have to acquire some level of morals and ethics to get to the level of the morals of an alley cat….
In one NYC precinct, I learned that while crime is down, arrests are up. So the cops are making arrests and DA Alvin Bragg is either not prosecuting misdemeanors or downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, making the crime rate appear to be lower. A few years ago, one NYC police sergeant noted that in the past, if a perp snatched a purse and then snatched another in the next block 10 minutes later, that would have been two counted as two discrete crimes. But it would now be counted as one crime. Games politicians play.
Democrats are the new communists! Sadly, they are destroying the USA! Khrushchev was wrong many years ago when he said, ” We will bury you” sadly we are burying ourselves! Just look at the trash in the USA who came from third world sewer countries, and some are in congress from these places declaring hatred for the USA. Republicans better get their act together and get laws on the books that limit immigration and be tough on crime.
This is nothing new big cities like Baltimore have been fudging the crime statistics for years. I’m talking like 1980s. No sir your car wasn’t stolen you just may have misplaced it. This was told to a friend of mine (back in the 80s) when he came out of a restaurant to find his car missing but this is just a small example.
The only way that Democrats can ever win another election is by lying and cheating – a strategy they have perfected over the last 40+ years!
Basically these are as accurate as the Unemployment, consumer price index, producer price index, new employment, and inflation numbers.
The Democratic Party are liars cheaters thieves and enemies to the American people!! It is time that the Democratic Party pay for everything they have done to destroy our country and the American people!!!
Interesting?
30% reduction last year?
30%reduction this year?
In 2028 for the election there will be no crime, my dad had a saying “figures don’t lie, but liers do figure”
The Democrats lying is that possible?
Hate to think those citizens would not believe their eyes and experiences over the LEFT lies and BS. Then again, they got where they are somehow!
Putin has hit a new low this week , when he is bombing Kindergarten in Ukraine during school hours. It is time for the USA to give all the support possible to Ukraine & the oil sanctions announced yesterday are what? Trump says this is complicated war cuz the two people hate each other………..and well I ask Trump if some other President was bombing the USA would you like them or hate them & I guarantee that you would refuse to give up any territory to the attackers.
Lying Democrats ? I’m shocked. Time to round up the usual suspects.
You got to give the socialist/democrats credit. They are masters at deceit, spreading their hate and lies to the weak minded and manage to get enough votes to somehow stay in power. If they ever lost their fingers and couldn’t point and accuse their opponents of what THEY have done, they couldn’t exist.
Of course they fudge the numbers, it’s a job requirement.
Wonder if he even knows some of the things he says. Today he said that Biden let 25 million cross the border & at other times was saying 15 and many other times 20 million.
And I have heard at least ten times how Venz emptied out their prisons & mental institutions and sent them to US. Does anyone really know the people that came into the US illegally during Biden term & how many were from prisons.
Gee, dims lying and cheating again? I don’t believe it- NOT!