{"id":263232,"date":"2023-01-05T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=263232"},"modified":"2023-01-06T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:54:12","slug":"watchdog-calls-for-congressional-investigation-into-useless-fbi-stats-showing-decline-in-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=263232","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Calls For Congressional Investigation Into \u2018Useless\u2019 FBI Stats Showing Decline In Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Pearce \u2013 The Daily Wire Jan 3, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A watchdog group says recent hate crime statistics published by the FBI<\/a> are \u201cessentially useless,\u201d and anti-Semitism<\/a>, which the report says is declining, is actually surging in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Marcus, chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, called on the Department of Justice last month to correct the flawed data reported in the FBI\u2019s 2021 hate crime statistics. Marcus said the unreliable data is a product of a change in how the FBI collects hate crime data.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my experience overseeing federal civil rights data collections, congressional committees have historically taken a keen interest in the completeness and accuracy of governmental information provided to the public,\u201d Marcus told The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cIt is hard to imagine that a failure of this scope would escape the notice of congressional oversight staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hopeful that the Department of Justice and FBI will clean up this mess on their own,\u201d he added. \u201cIf DOJ and the FBI do not fix this problem, however, by providing corrected and complete data to the public, we should not be surprised if Congress should get involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

An FBI spokesperson said that recent changes in how the FBI collects hate crime data impacted the 2021 crime statistics the bureau published last month. The statistics are missing data from multiple agencies across the country that did report data in 2020, so at least part of the drop in hate crimes reported would be due to missing data.<\/p>\n

Marcus said the 2021 crime data is irreparably flawed because of the missing data.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time of record anti-Semitic hate crimes, it is appalling that the FBI\u2019s data-gathering has been so badly botched. The 2021 hate crimes data is essentially useless,\u201d he said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThe problem is so bad that record-high levels of anti-Semitism appear in the official data as actual declines, because major jurisdictions didn\u2019t formally report it. This massive failure has undermined the purposes of hate crimes data precisely when we most need the data. If the FBI doesn\u2019t quickly correct this problem, congressional committees will need to ask some serious questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-Semitic attacks and other incidents in the U.S. reached a record high in 2021, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL tallied<\/a> 2,717 anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in 2021, a 34% increase over 2020.<\/p>\n

The trend in anti-Semitism has been picked up by the White House. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish, warned<\/a> against an \u201cepidemic of hate\u201d during a White House roundtable on anti-Semitism last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a rapid rise in antisemitic rhetoric and acts,\u201d he said. \u201cLet me be clear: words matter. People are no longer saying the quiet parts out loud \u2014 they are literally screaming them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While FBI statistics show a decline in anti-Semitism, Jewish \u2018interest\u2019 groups are having none of it. Groups like the ADL claim that Anti-Semitism is now \u201csurging\u201d. Prompting calls for the FBI to review how it collects hate crime data. We would suggest that’s because their power relies on the spectre of ‘anti-Semitism’. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263270,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263232\/revisions\/263270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}