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Jim Jordan Demands FBI Director Testify About Allegedly 'Cooking The Books' on US Crime Statistics

Rep. Jim Jordan (Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has given a hard deadline to FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide documentation related to what he claims is the doctoring of information related to violent crime in the United States.

Concretely, Jordan was referring to data showing "a 2.1 percent decrease in violent crime across the country from 2021 to 2022" that was last month revised to "show that violent crime had actually increased by 4.5 percent from 2021."

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