Crime watch: The FBI Stat Shuffle “Americans can be forgiven for suffering from whiplash regarding law and order,” notes James Varney at RealClearInvestigations, with Democrats using “declines in violent crime statistics to argue that America is becoming a safer place.” That’s even though the 2023 figures “represent a large increase over the recent past, before the pandemic and racial upheaval set in motion in 2020.” Why the disconnect? Well, “crime stats have become notoriously incomplete in recent years,” with big cities failing to report to the FBI. Add in a “dramatic decline in arrests” and the “reductions in the size...