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Two Spreadsheets Enter. One Revision Leaves.

Anime-style cartoon in a dark brick bar: two monitor-headed figures face off, labeled First Draft and Quiet Revision. One says 'Violent crime: -1.7%'; the other says 'Same year: +4.5%'. A red VS sits between them.
EXE original cartoon · CC BY 4.0

The same year's violent-crime number, as the first draft and as the quiet revision.

What
Two Spreadsheets Enter. One Revision Leaves.
When
2026-10-16
Source
U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Credit
EXE original cartoon
License
CC BY 4.0
Details
Version one said down 1.7%. Version two said up 4.5%. Both are filed under 'final', and the oversight committee is now cc'd. Based on: The FBI first estimated a 1.7% decrease in violent crime for 2022, then revised it to a 4.5% increase. (U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 2024-10-31).

crime-datastatisticsbureaucracyMeme / satire

Sources and credit

  1. U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
  2. Satire: the full record

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