How Much Was the Government LYING About the Illegal Immigrant Crime Wave?
27th February 2026
The legendary Jack Bogle was referring to the financial market, but his sentiment also applies to crime statistics: Nobody really knows the actual crime rate — or who’s committing the crimes.
For about 10 years, I did PR for a fintech company that specialized in cybersecurity. You’d think online crimes would be the easiest to verify, but most of the crime stats were manufactured: We’d extrapolate data from Category A and project it to Category B.
They were almost always statistical projections.
Look, if we can’t accurately quantify crime stats in a closed ecosystem like cybersecurity, we don’t have a prayer of tabulating crime rates everywhere else. Too many variables.
This raises the question: What’s the true rate of illegal immigrant crime?
Nobody knows. Too many variables.
The history of people, including government, depending on bogus or inaccurate statistics is long and deep.