Source: themarshallproject.org 6/20/23
In announcing his presidential bid, Florida’s governor relied on data from only half of the state’s law enforcement agencies.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his bid for the presidency on Twitter Spaces last month, he touted Florida’s low crime rate as a proud accomplishment.
“Claiming that Florida is unsafe is a total farce,” DeSantis said in the announcement. “I mean, are you kidding me? You look at cities around this country, they are awash in crime. In Florida, our crime rate is at a 50-year low.”
But his statement rests on patchy, incomplete crime data. About half of the agencies that police more than 40% of the state’s population are missing from figures the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) used for a state-wide estimation.
Again, as with the Static-99R, the crime data gives info in which it is interpreted by those who want it to say what they want it to say, not always the reality of it or the completeness of it. People ought to know enough about that by now when only 1,000 people are usually polled by the major polling institutions and then blasted across the world for all to read and believe.