evidence: The email cited a September 2021 USA Today article that summarized newly released FBI crime data. The article cited a "nearly 30% increase in murders in 2020, the largest single-year jump since the bureau began recording crime statistics six decades ago." [...] Also, crime statistics experts told PolitiFact that the FBI’s 2021 data tracks other crime data studies that didn’t change their methodology that year. The only year for which FBI data was affected was for 2021. [...] When considering at crime statistics, experts said, this omission is crucial. Although the pandemic surely made 2020 unusual, so did the murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd while in police custody. Floyd’s killing triggered a national outcry and a reckoning on racial issues.