. The GOP has spent an estimated $21 million on ads related to crime and punishment in the last month.
Since 1930, the FBI has been using the Summary Reporting System , which followed a hierarchy rule. If multiple crimes were reported in a single incident, only the most severe crime was counted in their database.For the past 90 years, a carjacking where the victim was beatenhad their car stolen counted as a singular crime. Now, it counts as two crimes: assault, and car theft.
The FBI specializes in eight major crimes: murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. The data the FBI receives from local police departments excludes wage theft, workspace safety, building code violations and environmental protection violations —the crimes that affect most Americans every day.