Officials: DeSantis Lied About Florida’s Crime Rate

NBC News reports:

Florida’s top law enforcement officials were repeatedly warned by their own staff that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ claim that the state’s crime rate is at a 50-year low — a message he often uses as part of his presidential campaign — was based on incomplete data that makes the accuracy of the claim impossible to verify.

Despite those warnings, DeSantis continued to promote the numbers on the campaign trail, three former officials with Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) familiar with the matter told NBC News.

“The ethics of what we were reporting, we knew the numbers were bad,” a former FDLE employee told NBC News. “We foot-stomped it to leadership over and over again; they did not care. They did not care.”

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Ron DeSantis’ crime talking point raised concerns with law enforcement staff.

Three former staffers in Florida’s top law enforcement agency told NBC News they could not get behind the statement that state crime was at “a 50-year low.” https://t.co/IWYkiChaLF

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“Our crime rate in Florida is at a 50-year low,” DeSantis said – let see:
Police misconduct in Florida the ACLU of Florida receives hundreds of complaints of police misconduct every year,ranging from verbal abuse, to racial profiling, to use of excessive force, to inappropriate pic.twitter.com/SwLLppSQ0w

— Anna – Never give up. No matter what is going on! (@Sanikri) September 14, 2023