FBI Crime Statistics Revision Exposes Reform Failures as Non-Citizen Voting Concerns Mount

On the October 29, 2024 broadcast, Kim Monson tackled three major election-season issues: the FBI’s quiet revision of violent crime statistics with Texas bail attorney Ken Good, local TABOR repeal efforts with Free State Colorado founder Brandon Wark, and the potential impact of non-citizen voting on the 2024 presidential election with Center for Immigration Studies research director Steven Camarota. Colorado House District 2 candidate Michael DiManna also outlined his pro-public safety platform. TABOR Under Siege in Metro Denver Start listening at 15:40 – Hour 1 Brandon Wark, founder of Free State Colorado, sounds the alarm on ballot measures in Arapahoe County, Jefferson County, and RTD that would strip taxpayers of constitutional protections under Article 10, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution, commonly known as TABOR. Wark explains that all three measures use the same deceptive language, beginning with “without increasing the tax rate,” to mask their real purpose: allowing government to keep excess tax revenue indefinitely rather than returning it to taxpayers. Wark reveals that a breaking CBS Denver report uncovered Jefferson County knowingly over-collected $30 million in property taxes in 2023. CORA emails obtained by taxpayer advocate Natalie Metten show county officials deliberately delayed refunds while waiting to see whether ballot measure 1A would pass, allowing them to pocket the surplus. Wark urges voters to reject these measures and defend TABOR as the constitutional guardrail that prevents Colorado from becoming California. “So it is so important that voters reject these measures, tell these local governments to live within their means, and stop over-collecting tax revenue.” Brandon Wark, Founder, Free State Colorado FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Data Weeks Before Election Start listening at 31:14 – Hour 1 Ken Good, a Texas bail attorney who has argued cases before the Supreme Court, breaks down the FBI’s quiet revision of its 2022 crime statistics, the sole data point cited by those claiming crime was declining. Good explains that every other federal metric, including the CDC’s homicide data and the DOJ’s annual victimization survey, already showed crime rising. The revision eliminates the only evidence underpinning bail reform and criminal justice leniency experiments across the country. Good traces the mechanics of how lax enforcement drives crime upward: when courts dismiss cases due to backlogs created by failure-to-appear rates, the resulting de facto decriminalization signals to criminals that offenses carry no consequences. He points to Houston, Texas, where a third to half of open murder cases have not produced an arrest, and to domestic violence victims who can no longer rely on the justice system for protection. Good argues that restoring accountability starts with the simple step of making people show up in court and holding them accountable when they do not. “If they were to admit that crime has increased, then that blows a hole in all of these reforms that they’ve been saying, oh, we can do this and crime will not increase.” Ken Good, Texas Bail Attorney How Non-Citizen Voting Could Tip Battleground States Start listening at 70:00 – Hour 2 Steven Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies, presents findings from his co-authored analysis examining how many non-citizens would need to vote to affect the 2024 presidential election. W...