evidence: - Violent crime and murders nationwide have gone down during the Biden/Harris administration, according to FBI and other crime data. But Trump has taken to citing a different set of data to claim "there’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office." [...] Violent crime and murders nationwide have gone down during President Joe Biden’s term, according to FBI and other crime data, as we’ve written. But Trump has taken to citing a different set of data, the National Crime Victimization Survey. "Nationwide, there’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office, including a 58% increase in rape, 89% increase in aggravated assault, and a 56% increase in stone-cold robbery," Trump said in Atlanta, comparing data from 2020 to 2022 in the government’s National Crime Victimization Survey.