U.S. President Donald Trump is misrepresenting a report on British crime statistics by blaming an uptick in police-reported incidents on “radical Islamic terror.”
Britain’s Office for National Statistics this week reported a 13 per cent crime increase from the previous year in England and Wales.
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The report says the uptick “reflects a range of factors,” including an increase in incidents, improvements to how crimes are recorded and more victims coming forward. The report does not mention Islam.
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Early Friday morning, Trump tweeted: “Just out report: ‘United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror.”‘ It was not clear what source Trump was quoting, as that line does not appear in the report.
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