Republicans press FBI to explain process for updating crime statistics

A pair of House Republicans demanded on Thursday that the FBI clarify the process by which it updates its crime statistics, accusing the bureau of giving off a false impression that crime has decreased in recent years.

Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote in a letter to the FBI that they believed the bureau had quietly updated its statistics last year to include “thousands of murders, rapes and other violent crimes that were originally omitted from the FBI’s crime data.”