Elections are upcoming, and Republicans are running on being tough on crime. But the new statistics show a decrease in violent crime this most recent year!

I wonder why that could be...

Oh. Nearly half of the data is just missing. That's weird.

It's really just a convenient coincidence that this incomplete data helps Democrats though, isn't it?

The FBI released its national crime data for 2021 this week, but it lacks data from nearly 40% of police departments nationwide, including massive forces in cities such as New York and Los Angeles.

"I don't think you could get national numbers, at least not useful national numbers, from this data," Jacob Kaplan, criminologist at Princeton University, told the Marshall Project earlier this year. "It's going to be really hard for policymakers to look at what crime looks like in their own community and compare it to similar communities."

Yeah, nearly HALF of the police forces in the country missed the deadline and didn't report to the FBI.

This includes major crime cities like New York and Los Angeles.

But they aren't alone.

Most departments in Florida, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania failed to report data, according to the Marshall Project, which has been tracking the data for months. The two most populated cities in the country, New York and Los Angeles, also failed to deliver full reports to the FBI last year.

Only 52% of law enforcement departments nationwide sent full, 12-month reports of crime data to the FBI for last year. Roughly 9,700 law enforcement agencies did not provide full data sets, Reuters reported.

Florida's Democratic cities are crime havens, and major cities in Illinois and Pennsylvania contribute a large portion of the overall crime in the US. Yet they're all holding back their numbers.

The Department of Justice said on Wednesday that the data included estimates based on partial-year data from law enforcement departments, and federal officials were able to produce state-level estimates for 40 states.

"While the FBI did utilize methods for estimation to try to combat gaps in the data, it is fundamentally challenging to do so when such a large swath of data is not present," Rachael Eisenberg, the senior director of liberal think tank the Criminal Justice Reform at the Center for American Progress, told CBS News.

The FBI told Fox News that as of Septemeber of this year, "12,381 of the nation's 18,806 law enforcement agencies have been able to successfully transition to NIBRS."

So they're guessing.

It's an educated guess, but because 40% of the police departments gave only partial or no data at all, it's still only a guess.

A guess, which, of course, helps the Democratic Party.

Is there really no end to the laziness and corruption in our nation right now??