FBI figures tweaked to show phony increase in mass shootings, report says

[Suzanimal]

Crime stats published by the FBI and relied upon by the media distort the gun violence and leave the public with the impression "mass shooting" incidents are a much bigger threat than they really are, according to a criminologist and Second Amendment scholar.

The bureau's annual reports tabulating and classifying a wide range of crime throughout the nation have been historically free of politics, but John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said the latest statistics contain numbers that are misleading at best and deliberately fudged at worst. Lott believes the numbers may have been presented to overstate for political purposes the true risk of being a victim of random gun crimes.

"The FBI put out a clearly incorrect set of numbers on public shootings shortly before the November election last year,” said Lott, a frequent opinion writer for FoxNews.com and author of "More Guns, Less Crime." “I have been reading FBI reports for 30 years and I have never seen anything like this.It is one thing for the Bureau of Justice Statistics or the National Institute of Justice to put out politically biased studies, but there has always been a Chinese wall separating the FBI raw data collection from political pressures.”

Asked for comment, Katherine Schweit, the FBI's section chief of the bureau's Active Shooter Initiative, said only Tuesday night that its report isolates active shooter incidents and evaluates available data based on methodology detailed on the FBI's official website.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/25/shoddy-stats-fbi-figures-tweaked-to-show-phony-increase-in-mass-shootings-says/?intcmp=latestnews

[phill4paul]

The F.B.I. should investigate the number of citizen deaths by L.E.O.'s.

[jkob]

The F.B.I. should investigate the number of citizen deaths by L.E.O.'s.

lol the one statistic they don't track

what a joke

[Danke]

In 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people. During that same year, police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12 people and police in Germany didn’t kill anyone at all.

[Stratovarious]

We are still more likely to be killed by police than terrorists.
Disband DHS NSA TSA , We have too many agencies already that abuse power.
Ban tasers and POLICE HOME INVASIONS, Privatized Prisons, Asset Forfeiture / Re-establish Posse Comitatus.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Dang Suz - ya beat me to it. Was just heading over here to post this story.

+rep

FBI Shaped Report To Suggest Increase In Mass Shootings, When They’d Actually Been HALVED
http://bearingarms.com/fbi-shaped-report-suggest-increase-mass-shootings-theyd-actually-halved/?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

We’re rapidly reaching a point where no part of the Executive Branch can be trusted.

The stunning revelation that the Federal Bureau of Investigation shaped data on mass shootings in an apparent bid to generate support for gun control is just the latest crooked action by a rogue Obama Administration.

John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center says that the FBI’s data shows signs of intentional manipulation.

FBI figures released last September appear to show so-called “mass shooter” attacks and deaths have dramatically increased since 2000. The report asserted there were a total 160 such incidents in public places between 2000 and 2013, with attacks dramatically increased to 17 in 2013 from just one in 2000. The statistics also showed murders jumping to 86 from just seven over the span.

But Lott’s group said a major flaw is the fact that the data was gleaned from news reports, and noted recent accounts were more accessible, and thus over-represented. Recent cases of the far more common “active shooting incidents” were added to legitimate cases of mass shooting incidents, making the more recent years covered by the report appear to have a large increase in both mass shootings and deaths from them.

The media most often took the numbers at face value, allowing for the perception of an increase in mass shootings and deaths from them, Lott said. A counter report by the CPRCshows that if the biases and errors were corrected, the Bureau’s data would show that the annual growth rate for homicides in mass shootings had been cut in half, Lott said.

He suspects manipulation, and not merely mistakes.

“The administration has obviously been willing to do a lot to push for gun control; with everything from ‘Operation Choke Point’ to ‘Fast and Furious,’ and this is just part of that push. Given the level of politicization in [the] Department of Justice, this is not particularly surprising.”
Another researcher interviewed in the article assets that while the media certain ran with the false data, he puts the blame on the media for misinterpreting the FBI’s report.

So is spreading this false claim the FBI’s fault, or the media’s fault?

Yes.

As a general rule, the media is full of people who are intellectually lazy, who are not experts in their fields, and who have overt political biases which are easily exploited.

As most reporters are predisposed towards an anti-gun viewpoint, their confirmation bias is exploited by those (in this instance, the FBI) who want to use the reporters to shape a false narrative.

The FBI intentionally wrote their report in such a way that it would likely be read in such a way as to give a false impression. They then refused to correct this false impressions when they went to print, allowing reporters to push a lie.

In this instance, the media were stooges… but they were willing stooges, eager to share a lie that they wanted to believe.

It’s hard to claim that the accomplice was a victim.

The actual FBI report:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/september/fbi-releases-study-on-active-shooter-incidents/pdfs/a-study-of-active-shooter-incidents-in-the-u.s.-between-2000-and-2013

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[Christopher A. Brown]

We are still more likely to be killed by police than terrorists.
Disband DHS NSA TSA , We have too many agencies already that abuse power.
Ban tasers and POLICE HOME INVASIONS, Privatized Prisons, Asset Forfeiture / Re-establish Posse Comitatus.

Yes, "how", is the only question the average American informed enough to agree with those changes will ask.

I say Article V will be needed. But to assure all amendments have constitutional intent, we need to prepare the people to be "the rightful masters of the congress and the courts".

Clearly, it is broadly irresponsible to not prepare for the most significant political event since the signing of the constitution.

Uncommon and common knowledge will show us that there are 3 vital amendments that will assure the nations people are constitutional enough themselves to control their states delegates at the convention.

Free speech has the purpose of emaing unity adequate to alter or abolish in the way Article V specifies, by amendment. All amendments must have constitutional intent. Only the people can define constitutional intent. Congress and the courts can only interpret constitutional intent.

Accordingly, the easiest and most constitutional method to assure free speech can serve its purpose is to revise the 1st amendment.

The people need to have a reasonable method to bypass corporate media filtering of controversial issues. The framers perhaps could not conceive that the people could be made as ignorant or as corrupted as they have become. They also had no idea of the potentials of mass media. They did however have lite respect for the capacity of corporations to work against the peoples interests. Both factors considered, revision of the first amendment to compensate and put the people in control, leadership of their own vital information makes good sense.

The other two preparations are to secure the vote and reform campaign finance.

[Thor]

The F.B.I. should investigate the number of citizen deaths by L.E.O.'s.


lol the one statistic they don't track

what a joke

"Justifed" - doesn't count
Self Defense - doesn't count
Failure to Comply - doesn't count
Looked at LEO funny - doesn't count
In possession of an water gun with orange tip - doesn't count
In possession of an object resembling a gun - doesn't count
Walking down the street - doesn't count

Grand total of 0. You have nothing to worry about...

[Carson]

If you were to consider the global mass killings I would suspect drones would kick the number right out of the park.