evidence: "It’s no accident that violent crime is near a record 50-year low," President Biden similarly claimed. And fact-checkers, at places like Politifact, rate Biden’s statement as "true." [...] In saying Biden’s claim was correct, Politifact declared: "Other types of crime statistics, including the National Crime Victimization Survey, show current levels of violent crime far lower than their peaks in the early 1990s." But Biden was saying that the violent crime rate was near a 50-year low, not that it was lower than it was in the 1990s. There have been many years over the last 50 where the violent crime data from the NCVS is lower than in 2022. In addition, to say the violent crime rate increased by 42.4% in 2022 after a smaller increase in 2021 seems far from the low it was in 2020. Unreported crime has increased as law enforcement has collapsed, and that has reduced the rate at which people report crimes to police. In cities with more than one million people (where violent crime disproportionately occurs), arrest rates for violent crime plunged from 44% in the five years preceding COVID-19 (2015-2019) to 20% in 2022. Property crime arrest rates dropped by even more.