The Truth About Crime, Demographics, and Illegal Immigration
Mainstream narratives about crime and immigration have increasingly divorced themselves from empirical reality.
Although government databases show clear demographic patterns in violent crime and gang activity, media outlets and Democrat administrations, particularly under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have suppressed, distorted, or discontinued key crime data collection programs that once supported national law enforcement efforts.
Many jurisdictions, particularly those with sanctuary policies, do not track or report crimes by immigration status, meaning offenses committed by illegal aliens are often excluded from official statistics.
Major Democrat-led cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia failed to submit crime data during the FBI’s transition to the NIBRS system, further weakening the accuracy of national crime reporting.
Flawed conclusions based on incomplete or biased secondary sources, such as academic studies, think tank reports, and media summaries, have gained widespread acceptance.
These sources typically rely on conviction and incarceration data, which omit cases where suspects evade trial.
This is especially significant in sanctuary cities and jurisdictions where illegal immigrants are released without bail and fail to appear.
In 2017, 43% of aliens released before trial disappeared.
From 1996 to 2017, 37% of aliens released pending trial failed to appear, and 75% of all deportation orders during that period were issued for failure to appear. Nearly one million of these orders remain unenforced.
Despite these systemic failures, studies asserting that sanctuary policies have no effect on crime rates continue to rely on conviction data alone.