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Saturday, January 3, 2026

Maduro transported to Brooklyn detention center

 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, according to media reports. He was taken from Venezuela to the United States by a US military aircraft, landing at Stewart Air National Guard Base, from where he was transferred to Manhattan by helicopter and then to the detention center by motorcade.

Maduro will be formally indicted in New York next week, possibly on Monday. He faces charges of involvement in narco-terrorism and possession of weapons, among others.

Venezuelan VP Rodriguez named interim president

 Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice ordered that Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez be appointed as interim president after President Nicolas Maduro was captured by the United States and transferred to New York. The court conceded that the current situation is not covered by the Venezuelan constitution, but that it "requires constitutional certainty due to the extreme gravity that threatens the stability" of the country. It said that Rodriguez should assume the role temporarily to "guarantee administrative continuity and the comprehensive defense of the Nation."

While Rodriguez condemned the US operation as a "grave military aggression" and insisted Maduro is the legitimate leader of Venezuela, US President Donald Trump said she is ready to cooperate with his administration.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Venezuelan-VP-Rodriguez-named-interim-president/65420559

Oil Markets Brace for Supply Squeeze After U.S. Captures Nicolás Maduro

 

  • US special operations forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a nighttime operation to bring him to the United States to face a 2020 narco-terrorism indictment.
  • The removal of Maduro has immediately created a power vacuum in Venezuela, leading to massive market volatility in the energy sector as traders weigh the risk of civil war against a potential oil recovery.
  • The strike has been framed by the US as a blow against a "narco-state" and a strategic move to sever a critical Latin American artery for China, but it has drawn international backlash, with Russia and Cuba labeling it a violation of sovereignty.
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The geopolitical landscape of the Western Hemisphere shifted violently Saturday morning. In a nighttime operation that mirrors the 1989 capture of Manuel Noriega, U.S. special operations forces—reportedly including the Army’s Delta Force—struck Caracas and seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

President Donald Trump confirmed the capture on social media, describing it as a "large-scale strike" conducted alongside law enforcement. 

Maduro is currently being flown to the United States to face a 2020 indictment in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) for narco-terrorism and cocaine importation conspiracy.

The sitting leader of the country with the world's largest proven oil reserves is now in American custody.

For the energy markets, the immediate question isn't necessarily about justice, but about the flow of 800,000 to 900,000 barrels of oil per day. Early assessments from state-run Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) suggest that production and refining facilities remain intact, though the port of La Guaira has sustained "severe damage."

Venezuela sits on roughly 300 billion barrels of oil... most of it trapped under a crumbling infrastructure that needs billions in Western capital to breathe again.

The Trump administration has framed this as a blow against a "narco-state," but the underlying strategy leans heavily on the Monroe Doctrine. 

By removing Maduro, Washington effectively severs a critical Latin American artery for China, which has been the primary buyer of Venezuelan crude in exchange for debt repayment.

Markets can expect a massive spike in volatility as traders price in the risk of a Venezuelan civil war versus the potential for a "Chevron-led" recovery of the Orinoco Belt.

Legal Limbo and the Ghost of 1989

The legal authority for a direct strike on a sovereign head of state remains murky, echoing the controversial "Noriega Precedent" from exactly 36 years ago. While Attorney General Pam Bondi emphasized the criminal charges—specifically narco-terrorism and the possession of "destructive devices"- the operation bypasses traditional diplomatic immunity.

The U.S. position relies on a specific legal loophole: because Washington does not recognize Maduro as the legitimate president following the disputed 2024 elections, it views him not as a protected head of state, but as an indicted fugitive leading a criminal enterprise.

In the eyes of the Justice Department, this was the high-stakes execution of an arrest warrant.

But the domestic political fallout is already mounting.

Congress was notably left in the dark, and the administration’s reliance on Article II "Commander in Chief" powers to justify a unilateral strike on a foreign capital has hit a bipartisan nerve. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has already questioned the constitutional justification for the strike in the absence of a formal declaration of war or specific Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF).

"The Constitution does not permit the executive branch to unilaterally commit an act of war against a sovereign nation that hasn't attacked the United States," Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) noted earlier this month, anticipating this exact escalation.

The U.S. is essentially betting that the "shock and awe" of Maduro’s removal will cause the Venezuelan military to fracture rather than fight. It is a gamble on the "Ker-Frisbie" doctrine—a legal principle suggesting that once a defendant is in a U.S. courtroom, the "shady" nature of how they got there doesn't invalidate the trial.

If the military holds its loyalty to Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello or Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the U.S. hasn't just captured a "tyrant"... it has opened a theater of urban warfare on its own doorstep. The transition from "kidnapping" to "cooperative extradition" depends entirely on whether a new, U.S.-recognized government is installed quickly enough to retroactively "consent" to the raid.

Global Markets Brace for the Aftershock

The reaction from the international community has been split along predictable, yet dangerous, lines. Russia and Cuba have already labeled the move an "unacceptable violation" of sovereignty and "state terrorism."

Moscow’s first official response, channeled through its embassy in Caracas, accused Washington of "armed aggression," while reports suggest Vladimir Putin has convened emergency closed-door meetings at the Kremlin to address the loss of its most significant strategic ally in the Americas.

China, meanwhile, has been quieter but no less firm, previously criticizing the U.S. naval blockade as "illegal unilateral sanctions." For Beijing, Maduro’s removal isn't just a political loss; it’s a direct threat to the billions in debt-for-oil swaps that have fueled its energy security for a decade.

Meanwhile, regional neighbors are panicking. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has deployed troops to the 2,000-kilometer border, describing the strike as an "assault on the sovereignty" of Latin America. Petro has activated contingency plans for what he expects to be a massive, chaotic influx of refugees—or worse, a spillover of military skirmishes as Venezuelan forces mobilized under "external disturbance" protocols.

In sharp contrast, Argentina’s Javier Milei celebrated the capture with his characteristic "Long live freedom" slogan, while Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has praised the move as a blow against a "criminal structure."

Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has long highlighted Venezuela as the "wildcard" of global supply. Even before today’s raid, IEA forecasts for 2026 had been trimmed due to the U.S. blockade and sanctions hitting Russian and Venezuelan exports. If a transitional government friendly to Washington takes over, we could see the fastest return of "lost" barrels in history... assuming the power grid in Caracas doesn't collapse entirely first.

The physical reality on the ground, however, is grim. Smoke is rising from the hangar of the La Carlota air base, and fire has been reported at Fuerte Tiuna, the country's largest military complex.

The 11 a.m. press conference at Mar-a-Lago will likely dictate whether this is the end of a surgical strike or the beginning of a prolonged regional conflict that could keep 300 billion barrels of oil locked in the ground for years.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Oil-Markets-Brace-for-Supply-Squeeze-After-US-Captures-Nicols-Maduro.html

Made-In-USA Cars Granted Trump Tax Break In IRS Deduction Guidance

 by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury issued guidance on Wednesday regarding the deduction for car loan interest payments made by taxpayers.

statement from the IRS said that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in July, includes a provision regarding auto loan interest paid by car owners.

The provision allows owners who bought vehicles with final assembly in the United States to deduct up to $10,000 in car loan interest from their taxable income for 2025 through 2028.

The deduction applies to interest paid on vehicle loans incurred after Dec. 31, 2024, for the purchase of new, made-in-America vehicles, the IRS said. The tax benefits apply to taxpayers who take the standard deduction and to those who itemize deductions.

The newly issued guidance provides clarity on the eligibility criteria for such deductions, including qualifying loans, the amount of interest paid, and whether the vehicle is bought for personal use.

For instance, the guidance states that in addition to requiring the final assembly of vehicles to be in the United States, a vehicle must meet other conditions to be eligible for interest deductions, such as a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 14,000 pounds, and that the original use of the vehicle must have commenced with the taxpayer.

For determining whether final assembly occurred in the United States, a buyer can check the vehicle identification number at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website.

As for the $10,000 max deduction limit, it only applies to federal tax returns, the guidance clarified. “If two taxpayers have a Federal income tax return filing status of married filing separately, the $10,000 limitation would apply separately to each taxpayer’s return.”

If the modified adjusted gross income of a taxpayer for a year exceeds $100,000, the deduction limit decreases by $200 for every $1,000 in extra income. For married taxpayers filing a joint return, the cuts in deductions start once income exceeds $200,000.

The guidance clarified that while eligibility for loan interest deduction requires that the vehicle be used for personal purposes, there is no insistence that a vehicle be purchased “exclusively” for personal use.

Requiring taxpayers to make a determination regarding the exact amount of expected personal use and non-personal use is not administrable and may result in a considerable burden to taxpayers, ” the guidance said.

Regarding deceased owners, some estates, formed to hold a deceased owner’s property for their heirs, may purchase new vehicles. These estates qualify for the loan interest deduction, the guidance said, adding that certain trusts, like qualified funeral trusts, may never be eligible.

Tariffs and Vehicle Sales

In a July 15 post, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy had suggested that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s car loan interest deduction would not completely offset the higher auto prices triggered by the Trump administration’s tariffs on these items.

The administration had instituted 25 percent tariffs on auto imports in April, followed by 25 percent tariffs in May on the import of auto parts in a bid to protect American manufacturing and counter the unfair trade practices of its trading partners. The rates have been adjusted for certain nations based on trade negotiations.

The deduction would offset only 36 to 43 percent of tariff-induced price increases for working-class families while buyers with higher incomes could see offsets ranging up to 85 percent,” the institute said.

“On a $40,000 vehicle, the net price increase would range from $201 to $879 for eligible claimants and would be $1,363 for car buyers ineligible for the deduction.”

However, recent estimates show no decline in car sales in the country despite the implementation of higher tariffs.

According to a Dec. 17 post by industry expert Cox Automotive, new vehicle sales are expected to close 2025 up 1.8 percent year-over-year per estimates from Kelly Blue Book. New vehicle sales for the year are estimated to be 16.3 million, making 2025 the “best sales year since 2019,” it said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/made-usa-cars-granted-trump-tax-break-irs-deduction-guidance

The Fourth Big Lie of Vaccinology


(For the purposes of this essay, we will focus on fatal outcomes of multiple simultaneous injections, although nonfatal harms from this practice are also real and even more common.)

The Fourth Big Lie of Vaccinology – declaring multiple simultaneous injections to be safe – is a reckless and sometimes deadly false assumption that has no legitimate scientific basis. 

The simultaneous administration of multiple different vaccines, especially in children, is now standard practice in the United States. It has intensified over the past couple of decades, as additional shots have been added to the bloated CDC vaccination schedules. However, this practice has never been properly investigated, nor demonstrated to be safe. 

This Big Lie has been imposed onto everyday pediatric practice to allow the excessive pediatric vaccine schedule to be administered in an expedient manner for both doctors and parents. 

After all, if a family adheres to the current CDC recommended pediatric vaccine schedule, a child will receive well over 70 total doses of 23 different vaccines by age 18. Who would bring their child to the pediatrician more than 70 times in eighteen years to get one shot at a time?

Spacing out shots would be the prudent approach for those choosing to vaccinate, given the complete lack of safety data regarding giving multiple shots at once, and the clear evidence of potential harm. However, it would be highly impractical. 

Furthermore, it would reveal to all involved the preposterous excess of the current CDC pediatric vaccine schedule. Why on Earth does a healthy child need to be injected an average of 4 or 5 times per year between birth and their 18th birthday? Dragging one’s child to the pediatrician that often would draw public attention the following facts:

  • unvaccinated or minimally vaccinated minority populations such as the Amish thrive, with much lower rates of autism, ADHD, and other disorders
  • children in the 1980s and 1990s received only a fraction of the shots on today’s schedule, and they were significantly healthier than today’s children
  • multiple other developed nations recommend only a fraction of the shots on the CDC schedule, while boasting superior pediatric and general health outcomes

But if the “experts” simply declare it “safe” to administer multiple shots at once and group those shots together in large salvos of multiple vaccinations, the whole operation becomes more feasible (not to mention less obviously excessive) for pediatricians and parents alike.

Never mind the cumulative toxicity or drug-drug interactions the children face. “Kids are resilient,” remember?

The Deadly Ritual of the “Catch-Up Visit”

With 70-plus doses recommended before age 18, every so often some poor urchin is bound to fall behind with his vaccinations. But fear not. The concept of a “catch-up visit” is well established in pediatrics. In this practice, a child who is behind the official schedule is brought in to be injected with the vaccines he has not yet received, whatever the combination may be.

Vaccine zealots have heartily endorsed the “catch-up visit” for decades.

In 2002, vaccinologist Dr. Paul Offit notoriously claimed that children possess “the theoretical capacity to respond to about 10,000 vaccines at any one time.” An article in the American Academy of Pediatrics’ flagship journal Pediatrics, with Offit as lead author, endorsed the notion.

In 2023, the World Health Organization, in cooperation with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, GAVI, and promoted by Chelsea Clinton, started “The Big Catch Up,” a worldwide program to provide the wonders of multiple simultaneous vaccinations to children worldwide.

What clinical studies have been performed verifying the safety and effectiveness of this hyper-aggressive approach? None. There are reasons for the lack of clinical studies supporting multiple simultaneous vaccinations.

The first reason, of course, is that vaccinologists don’t want any studies that may demonstrate that their products are harmful in any way. In a previous essay we saw how, when their products are still in development, vaccine manufacturers use fake placebos to hide the toxicity of their products.

The second reason is that in practice, the “catch-up visit” is so chaotic and unreproducible that proper trials would be nearly impossible to conduct. Every time a child is pulled into the office to be peppered with multiple “overdue” shots, the situation is different. 

One child who is deemed to be behind schedule at age two may be administered an individualized cocktail comprised of a half-dozen or more shots at once. His older sibling, age 5 and about to start school, may be subjected to a very different mixture of vaccines. The possible combinations of shots (and their potential combined toxicities) are nearly endless, and therefore completely beyond scientific knowledge.

Infanticide with Impunity

Should readers sense a certain Wild West, shoot-‘em-up-now-and-let-God-sort-‘em-out-later quality to the “catch-up visit,” this is not without reason. There have been many deaths of infants and young children in the immediate aftermath of receiving multiple simultaneous vaccinations.

Journalist Suzanne Burdick describes a recent case:

Less than 14 hours after 6-month-old Blessings Myrical Jean Simmons was given six vaccines during a 6-month wellness visit, she died. The baby received the vaccines at roughly 3 p.m. on Jan. 13, [2025] at a clinic in Louisiana, according to the baby’s mother, Brishe McKinley.

At roughly 8:30 a.m. the next morning, the parents found Blessings dead in her bassinet.

They [the simultaneously administered vaccines] included a second dose of DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis), inactivated poliovirus, Hib (short for Haemophilus influenzae type b), rotavirus and pneumococcal, and a third dose of hepatitis B. 

Brishe McKinley noted that her daughter had been in “perfect health” prior to receiving the volley of vaccines. 

This tragedy is repeated with shocking frequency.

On March 26, 2025, at the Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester, New York, during a routine pediatric visit, one-year-old Sa’Niya Carter was administered 12 vaccines at once. The barrage of shots inflicted on poor Sa’Niya included doses for “DTap/Hep B/IPV (Pediarix), HiB/Acthib/Hiberix, Pneumococcal 20-valent Conj vaccine, Varicella (Chickenpox), MMR, and Hepatitis A.” 

By 4 AM on March 27, after multiple seizures, a blood glucose level of greater than 700, and a cardiac arrest, Sa’Niya Carter was dead.

The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) granted broad immunity from product liability for vaccine manufacturers. As a supposed recourse for the vaccine injured, the Act created a Federal system called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), through which the vaccine injured could purportedly seek justice. But the VICP has proven to be deeply problematic.

11-week-old Anna Sims died on Dec. 16, 2013, just hours after she received multiple routine vaccines including Pediarix, Hib, PCV13, and RotaTeq at a well-baby appointment. Her parents sought recourse through the VICP. Their ordeal lasted over a decade, finally ending in August 2025. 

Only after the testimony of an expert pediatric neurologist/neuropathologist and an immunologist, and after rejecting appeals by HHS seeking to overturn the 2024 decision that had been made in the Sims family’s favor, did the court finalize the determination that Anna had died due to vaccine-induced encephalitis (brain inflammation), resulting in brainstem herniation and death.

14-month-old Violet Skye Rodela died on March 11, 2015, 19 days after receiving the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, along with several other routine childhood immunizations. Her parents subsequently filed a claim with VICP in 2017. 

Similar to the Anna Sims case, VICP took nearly a decade to reach a final conclusion in the Rodela case. Finally, on August 8, 2024, the United States Court of Federal Claims awarded Violet Rodela’s family $310,000, although due to delays in the California court system the amount was not paid until 2025.

As the Sims and Rodela cases illustrate, the VICP process is exceedingly unsympathetic to the vaccine-injured. Navigating the VICP is often an exhausting, years-long legal struggle ending with marginal compensation in the best of cases. According to Wade Rohde, author of The Vaccine Court 2.0, only about 50 infant death cases have been compensated by VICP in the 40 years since the NCVIA was made law in 1986.

Given the association between multiple simultaneous vaccinations and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and given the extreme difficulty of navigating the VICP, it is highly likely that thousands of young children have died as a result of multiple simultaneous injections. 

On the other hand, the fact that 50 or so infant death cases have been compensated through the unsympathetic and obstructionist VICP process provides overwhelming evidence that children are being killed by multiple simultaneous vaccinations. The question is not if children are dying from multiple simultaneous vaccines, but how many children are dying.

Imagine losing your infant child immediately after she receives a barrage of vaccinations, battling in Federal court for over a decade, and settling for the equivalent of a minimum wage-level deferred compensation package for your years of struggle.

And that’s if you win

Of course, your child is still dead, and those responsible for her death carry on as before, harming and killing more children with impunity.

The Data Accumulates

There is accumulating evidence in the scientific literature that the practice of multiple simultaneous vaccination increases vaccine toxicity and kills children.

In a peer-reviewed study published in 2011 in Human & Experimental Toxicology, Miller and Goldman compared infant mortality rates in 30 developed nations around the world to the number of vaccines routinely administered by age 1 in each country. They found a “highly statistically significant correlation between increasing numbers of vaccine doses and increasing infant mortality rates,” with r = 0.70 (p < 0.0001).

Even CDC researchers have reluctantly admitted to the connection between multiple simultaneous vaccinations and deaths, although as part of that captured agency, their findings are typically downplayed.

In a 2015 paper in Clinical Infectious Disease, CDC researchers who reviewed the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) wrote that “For child death reports, 79.4% received >1 vaccine on the same day; among infants…86.2% received >1 vaccine.”

Despite this, and despite the fact that 544 of the 1,244 examined pediatric deaths were classified as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the authors somehow concluded, “No concerning pattern was noted among death reports submitted to VAERS during 1997–2013.”

A very recent study by Jablonowski and Hooker analyzed a series of over 1,700 pediatric deaths matched to the children’s vaccination records. Among other results, they found that:

Children receiving all 5 first-time recommended vaccines for 2-month olds (DTaP, rotavirus, HIB, polio, and pneumococcal) were compared to children who did not receive any of the 5 vaccines in their second month of life. Children who received all five vaccines were 60% (OR=1.60 (1.12-2.32), p-value=0.0084) more likely to die in their 3rd month compared to the unvaccinated. 

Furthermore, they found that baby girls were at significantly increased risk compared to boys, and that causes of death were different in the vaccinated children (including deaths due infectious diseases and neurological disease) than in the unvaccinated.

The Tide Is Turning

In this essay, we have focused on deaths resulting from multiple simultaneous injections. We have not addressed the issue of non-fatal vaccine injury associated with multiple simultaneous injections.

Another concern is how multiple simultaneous injections may impair the intended effects of vaccination. Paul Offit’s cavalier and unsupported speculations aside, how does an infant’s still-developing immune system handle a half-dozen or more challenges at once? 

The standard first-year barrage recommended by the current CDC Pediatric Vaccine Schedule represents a huge and extremely varied load of antigens and other ingredients. Even setting the issue of toxicity aside, it is highly irresponsible and frankly absurd to assume that an infant’s immune system can successfully “multitask” under such intense stress and simultaneously develop effective immunity to all the antigens presented to it at once.

The inescapable conclusion is that the pharmaceutical-medical establishment that created the current CDC schedules simply doesn’t care if the practice of multiple simultaneous injections is safe or effective. Frankly, it doesn’t want to know. It just wants shots in babies.

Finally, in the wake of the blatant vaccine tyranny of the Covid era, the tide appears to be turning.

President Donald Trump recently gave Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a mandate to bring the CDC Pediatric Vaccine Schedule into closer accord with other developed nations such as Denmark and Japan.

Furthermore, the current 70-plus dose schedule is facing legal challenge. The CDC has recently been sued on the grounds that the pediatric vaccine schedule is unconstitutional, based on violations of the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment, as well as the Administrative Procedure Act. It further alleges that CDC has been negligent in never having studied the cumulative safety of the vaccine schedule, despite being required to do so.

Any parent who takes their child to a pediatrician who advises multiple simultaneous vaccines or who proposes a “catch-up visit” might consider asking to see a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled study demonstrating the safety and efficacy of whatever cocktail of vaccines the physician may want to administer. 

Brishe McKinley, the mother of Blessings Simmons, was asked what she most wanted to tell the public in the wake of her baby’s death, which as we have seen, occurred less than a day after multiple simultaneous injections. McKinley said, “Don’t let you, your loved one, or your children become a statistic of Pharma.” 

  • C.J. Baker, M.D., 2025 Brownstone Fellow, is an internal medicine physician with a quarter century in clinical practice. He has held numerous academic medical appointments, and his work has appeared in many journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. From 2012 to 2018 he was Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester.

  • https://brownstone.org/articles/the-fourth-big-lie-of-vaccinology/

Real Reason For Historic Drop In US Homicide Rates? Reporting Method Change, What Else

 Despite a flurry of politically charged violence and a number of Islamic and left-wing motivated terror attacks, 2025 also experienced the largest single-year decline in homicides in US history.  The plunge brings official US homicide rates to near-record lows.

Based on a sampling of preliminary crime statistics from 550 U.S. law enforcement agencies, the year is expected to end with a roughly 20% decrease in homicides nationwide, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News. 

"So, even taking a conservative view, let's say its 17% or 16%, you're still looking at the largest one-year drop ever recorded in 2025," said Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics and a former crime analyst for the CIA and the New Orleans Police Department.  

The drop comes after what many law enforcement analysts call the "Pandemic Surge", the Biden era explosion in homicides and overall crime was considered endemic to Democrat controlled cities across the US.  Though, Democrat leaders claimed throughout Biden's term that no such surge was taking place.  


The spike in murders was the largest since the early 1990s at the height of the gang violence era.  However, criminal data collection was incomplete during the Biden years due to a sudden change in the FBI's Summary Reporting System (SRS).  Starting in 2021, the FBI began transitioning to a new method called the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). 

This transition was officially slated to take up to five years to complete and during the changeover a large percentage of US cities were not required to submit complete crime stats.  Meaning, as bad as the pandemic surge was, the real crime rate was likely much higher than reported.  

By the end of 2024, crime data coverage returned to around 95% of the population.  This is rather convenient for Democrats given they had a convenient excuse to suppress true crime rates through lack of reporting; then, the reporting system went back to normal as soon as Donald Trump returned to office. 

If the stats are accurate for 2025, this means the Trump Administration has overseen the largest ever drop in homicides in the US in it's first year without the benefit of incomplete FBI data.  This is impressive.

But there as some lingering concerns about the accuracy of blue city crime rates.  For example, Washington DC officials have been caught in the midst of active suppression of crime data, using intimidation of precinct commanders as a means to rig arrest records and downgrade offenses while progressive prosecutors and judges keep conviction rates low. 

The exposure of this fraud (due to law enforcement whistleblowers) led to the resignation of D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith and an ongoing congressional investigation.

The question is, how many other blue cities are involved in the same kind of crime stat suppression and is this the real cause of the drop in criminal activity.  Or, did Trump play a substantial role in cutting down homicides?  Perhaps the mass deportations along with National Guard deployments in place like DC and LA have had a meaningful effect on urban violence. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/homicide-rates-fall-near-record-lows-during-trumps-first-year