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Ben Ferguson: “They were just lying about the crime stats. Washington, D.C…”

Featuring: Ben Ferguson, Conservative | Talk Show Host | National

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And it's in a level, as you mentioned earlier, that we haven't seen in decades. You compare that to what Democrats were doing to lower crime. They were just lying about the crime stats. Washington, D.C. is a prime example of this. Before the election, they wanted to look like crime had gone down. They straight up lied about the crime statistics. We've seen this happen in other cities around the country where they got busted lying or recategorizing certain crimes and putting them in different categories so they wouldn't be reported the same way to make it artificially look like crime had gone down. (12:18–12:32)

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Asserts that crime statistics were manipulated in Washington, D.C., to falsely show a decrease before an election.

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