The Reality of the OrigiNation of Crime in the US
Before I begin this article, yes, I know I will be called racist for publishing it. And no, I do not care. I am a realist who wants to solve a problem in America. I want families to feel safe, and I want violent crime to stop. And none of that happens until we stop playing politics with American lives and address the issue. But before any of that can happen, we need to recognize that we have a problem in America and where that problem originated.
When it comes to violent crime in America, there is one thing the left is excellent at doing: hiding it. Informed citizens often refer to the FBI Universal Crime Reports to gather information about crime in America. Whether they use it for research papers, personal information, or information on neighborhoods they are considering moving to, we think the FBI is a reliable data source. And the FBI’s data is quoted quite often in the media. But what if we told you that the data is wrong?
Let me first start by giving you a definition of violent crime. According to the FBI, a violent crime is “offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault” (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2019). Another bit of information for this article is that I used crime data from 2019 because that was the most complete set of data available.
It is not that the data being reported is incorrect at all. However, most of your major cities do not report their data to the FBI. And because the left, or Democrats, run most major cities in America, there is an obvious reason they do not report it. The three largest cities in the United States either do not report crimes or only partially report them (Eng, 2022; Li & Ricard, 2023; Square, 2022). Those three cities alone, not counting suburbs, account for 5% of the U.S. population alone (Santarelli, 2024).
You see, if you are a politician and want to claim any success to continue receiving votes. Running a city with an extremely high violent crime rate is probably not going to reflect well on your ability to run your city.
With all that said, here are a couple of shocking statistics that need addressing now. The first is that black people commit 52.1% of all murderers or nonnegligent manslaughter’s. This crime rate is astonishing because black people make up only 12.5% of the U.S. population (Beck, 2018; U.S. Census Bureau, 2023). And even worse, black people account for 52.7% of all robberies in the U.S. Look at Table 1, which lists the number of crimes per citizen by race. In other words, for every 69,277 white U.S. citizens, a murder is committed. Therefore, lower numbers are bad. Rather shocking, I think.
Table 1
*Taken from the FBI UCR
Sources
Federal Bureau of Investigation. (n.d.). Table 43. FBI. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43
Federal Bureau of Investigation. (2019). Crime in the U.S. 2019. FBI. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019
Li, W., Calderón, A. R., Eads, D., & Flagg, A. (2022, August 15). See if police in your state reported crime data to the FBI. The Marshall Project. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/15/see-if-police-in-your-state-reported-crime-data-to-the-fbi
Li, W., & Ricard, J. (2023, July 13). Many large U.S. police agencies are missing from FBI crime data. The Marshall Project. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/13/fbi-crime-rates-data-gap-nibrs
Santarelli, M. (2024, February 26). Top 10 most dangerous cities in America 2023 & 2024. Norada Real Estate Investments. https://www.noradarealestate.com/blog/top-10-most-dangerous-cities-in-america/
Square, A. H. (2022, June 15). Report: Cities across Illinois have been underreporting crime to FBI. The Center Square. https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ef66d42a-ecf7-11ec-82f2-130acd336126.html
Table 43. (n.d.). FBI. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43
U.S. Census Bureau. (2023, July 1). U.S. Census Bureau quick facts: United States. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045223
