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CNN
5 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
FBI report: Violent crime fell in 2024, but assaults on officers reaches 10-year high
Violent crime decreased in the US in 2024, along with property crime, murder and robbery, while the number of reported assaults on officers reached a 10-year high, according to FBI data released Tuesday. According to the FBI's Reported Crimes in the Nation, a report that relies on local law enforcement submitting data to the FBI's federal system, violent crime decreased an estimated 4.5% compared to the previous year and property damage went down just over 8%. Murders, too, decreased by an estimated 14.9%, along with robbery, which went down nearly 9%. The statistics are at odds with comments President Donald Trump made throughout his campaign last year, arguing that crime was 'way up' and claiming that 'we've never seen crime like this before.' Reported assaults on officers, however, increased from over 83,000 in 2023 to 85,730 in 2024, marking a 10-year high of assaults on law enforcement officers. In 2015, that number was significantly lower, with 52,448 reported assaults. 'Between 2021 and 2024, we had 258 law enforcement officers feloniously killed in the line of duty,' a law enforcement official told reporters on a briefing call announcing the report, including 64 last year. The FBI is working on an in-depth behavioral analysis study to figure out why assaults on officers are increasing. 'It's going to be a longer study, because we are doing a real, in-depth behavioral analysis study of why these are occurring,' the official said. The FBI's crime report includes reporting from law enforcement agencies covering over 90% of the population in the US and will soon be available on a monthly basis, the official said during Tuesday's call. Hate crimes decreased slightly by 1.5%, according to the FBI's estimate for 2024 and motor vehicle theft dropped by a significant 19.5% when compared to 2023, though the rate remains higher than it was in the previous decade, from 2010 to 2021. Robbery, the report for 2024 says, was near its lowest rate in the last 20 years.
Daily Mail
17-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Expert reveals question you should ask to instantly tell if someone is lying
A behavioural expert has revealed some questions and techniques he uses to spot whether someone is lying. Chase Hughes, who served in the US Navy for some 20 years, is the founder and CEO of Applied Behavior Research and the author of the three-year #1 bestselling book on persuasion, influence and behavior profiling, The Ellipsis Manual. He is also a founding member of The Behavior Panel, a YouTube channel with more than one million subscribers. He recently appeared on the Robert Breedlove podcast to discuss behavioural topics including how to read people, and how to better protect yourself from being manipulated. Another topic he talked about is questions he uses to spot whether someone is lying. Discussing how he would approach questioning someone he suspected of doing something, he explained that he would use a technique known as a 'bait question'. A bait question uses hypothetical information to elicit a cue as to whether someone is being deceptive. As Chase explained: 'Let's say that you snuck three doors down to one of your neighbours' houses and kicked their trash can over. And it's a big deal, and you get called in, but you know you're going to deny it, right? 'And you and I sit down, and I say, "Hey man. Look, is there any reason at all that anybody would say that they saw you walking in that area or that it might show up on a camera or something?", because you don't have all the cameras clocked, but I never told you that I did have that, or that somebody did say those things.' According to Chase, people who are innocent will deny it. But, he added: 'If you're guilty, now your anxiety is really high because I haven't told you what I know yet and we're only one question in. 'And you might say, "well yes, I walked by," so you're either like, "yes, I was there," or "no, I wasn't".' He added that the moment the person being questioned says no, they 'don't know whether or not I'm about to flip something on the table and show you a video or bring in witnesses that said that you were there, like eight of them'. Chase continued: 'Your brain is in high anxiety mode. But it's only in anxiety mode if you're guilty. So an innocent person would be like, "no, absolutely not," and there's no anxiety spike at all.' It's important to note that some scientific literature suggests that the use of bait questions can lead to memory distortion in some people, and make them believe that non-existent evidence exists, and so the use of bait questions is not endorsed by all behavioural experts. Those who do implement the tactic, according to Chase, would then move on to what is known as a 'punishment question'. This type of question is used to try and assess whether a person is being truthful or not about whether they did something, and to gauge their feelings about the behaviour or crime in question. Chase explained: 'The punishment question is essentially - and I'm really breaking it down to the bare bones - is like, "we're working really hard to find out who's behind this. I'm, curious, what do you think should happen to the person that did this?".' He continued: 'And that works so powerfully, especially on sex crimes and people who've committed sex crimes - what do you think should happen to the person who did this? You're going to hear answers that soften to a crazy degree [from guilty people]'. According to Chase, someone who is guilty might say something like: 'Someone who does something like this is sick, so they need mental counselling, they don't need to go to jail, they need to get repaired because they're broken, they need counselling". 'No one [innocent] is going to say that.'
