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- The FBI criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom for misrepresenting crime data to credit a murder-rate decline to Democratic policies.
- FBI Director Kash Patel shared a chart projecting a 125-year low in homicides for 2026.
- Newsom countered that the data ends before 2025 and thanked President Biden for the crime reduction.
- The Council on Criminal Justice reported a 21% drop in homicides in 2025 versus 2024, with declines across the year.
