It’s evil-smart, report crime is low, and if the next president reports it accurately-higher, they can claim crime went up during their administration.

It’s kinda like how inventory in the military can look with crooked clerks, it’s just easier to pass off a short count to the next holder of that job. That’s what burned Russia in the early days of the Ukraine war, nobody had the balls to report that fuel was nearly nonexistent and tires dry-rotted, that made their stalled-out armored columns easy pickings for the Javelins…