Trump’s campaign manager suggests that the FBI’s decades of crime data aren’t trustworthy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/21/trumps-campaign-manager-suggests-that-the-fbis-decades-of-crime-data-arent-trustworthy/There's a big problem with Donald Trump's insistence that crime is "out of control" -- an insistence that bolsters his argument that he deserves your vote as the "law and order" candidate. That problem is that crime rates have fallen dramatically over the past 20 years. Trump likens his fight on crime to that of Richard Nixon in 1968, but back then, crime was actually noticeably spiking, according to annual data collected by the FBI.
But it's a remarkable thing to say. It's not calling into question the FBI as it stands, which would be very unusual for a presidential campaign alone. It is necessarily calling into question decades of compiled FBI data. Look at that chart above. Is Manafort suggesting that the FBI has been ineptly gathering crime data for the past two decades?
