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Two weeks ago, Fox —and only Fox— ran an old-school bit of journalism headlined, “FBI violent crime arrests double in Trump’s first year in 17 key cities compared to Biden record.”

Fox dug into the FBI’s own crime statistics and found something remarkable. Under Biden, arrests across major FBI field offices had flatlined. Same depressing low numbers, year after year. Bureaucratic meh. But under Kash Patel, arrests haven’t just ticked up— they doubled in his first year.

It’s an even bigger delta than it looks. Remember that Biden’s arrest numbers included roughly 1,600 January 6th tourists— grandmas, veterans, selfie-takers, and the occasional confused cosplayer masquerading as a Viking. Strip those out, and Biden’s “law enforcement productivity” looks even thinner.

By contrast, the 2025 arrest totals are packed with the things the FBI used to exist to pursue: gangs, cartels euphemistically called “transnational organized crime,” and child human trafficking networks—across 17 major FBI field offices.

Fox found that total arrests in those offices jumped to nearly 14,000 between January 20th (Trump’s inauguration) and December 22nd. Under Biden, the same offices averaged an anemic 6,000 to 7,000 arrests per year. An FBI spokesman quoted for the story cited an even larger figure —28,000 arrests nationwide in 2025— once all offices were included. ...

That’s not a narrative, a vibe shift, or a media frame. You can’t argue with arrest statistics. They’re the core metric of law enforcement. And by that unforgiving measure, the FBI didn’t just change tone this year. It is acting like a completely new agency— one that remembers, dimly at first but increasingly clearly, what it was actually built to do.

But the arrests we really want to see are not happening. No one with any real political or economic power gets arrested no matter what they do. Some people are simply above the law, like Hunter Biden for example.