FBI's revised crime statistics are under investigation by House Oversight Chairman Comer.

The FBI is being probed by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee for not providing complete and accurate national crime statistics.

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer stated that the bureau "excluded" a 4.5% increase in national crime from its 2022 data.

The FBI initially reported a 1.7% decrease in violent crime in 2022, but later quietly revised those figures, according to Comer. Comer claimed that the FBI failed to include in its initial count an additional 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults.

The FBI's failure to report this data casts doubt on the accuracy of the 2023 Crime in the Nation report, according to Comer.

The media used the 2023 data touted by Vice President Kamala Harris to dispel Americans' real concerns about crime.

"The FBI's recent failure to report accurate crime data is politically motivated, according to Comer. The Committee is seeking documents and communications to investigate the FBI's failure to provide Congress and the American people with accurate crime data and whether the 2023 data is accurate."

The FBI has confirmed to Planet Chronicle Digital that it supports every article published in its Crime in the Nation series.

A substantial number of agencies were unable to complete the transition from the FBI's traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS) to the more comprehensive National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) during the 2021 data collection year.

"The FBI was unable to produce traditional national estimates for 2021 due to low participation volume, but the UCR Program performed a NIBRS estimation crime trend analysis to provide a confident comparison of crime trends across the nation."

The FBI's release of Crime in the Nation, 2023, marked the beginning of its efforts to make data more readily available to the public in a timely manner.

The bureau plans to switch to monthly data releases to enhance transparency and enable consumers to evaluate crime statistics on a more timely basis, while recognizing that the data will be subject to ongoing updates.