Bannon: ‘Nobody believes’ Patel crime statistics

Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Trump, said “nobody believes” crime statistics from the FBI and its director, Kash Patel.

“Kash, I love you brother, but I don’t want to hear any more statistics about how crime’s coming down, crime’s coming down, all that,” Bannon said Monday on his “War Room” show.

Bannon later said he wants to see “perp walks of the deep state,” referencing an unproven network of operatives within the federal government that supporters of Trump believe has sabotaged him for years.

Violent crime in the U.S. was down 9.1 percent in the U.S. from March 2025 to February of this year, according to the FBI. That includes robberies dropping by 19.1 percent, murders declining by 18.7 percent, rapes decreasing by 7.2 percent and aggravated assaults dropping by 6.9 percent.

Property crime, meanwhile, dropped by 12 percent during the aforementioned time period, the FBI reported. Motor vehicle thefts decreased by 21.6 percent, while burglaries and larcenies dropped by 15.7 percent and 9.5 percent, respectively.

Those declines followed a decrease in violent crime by 9.3 percent and in property crimes by 12.4 percent from 2024 to 2025, according to the FBI.

But Bannon, whose ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed via emails released by the Justice Department, pushed back on the data from the federal government.

“Nobody believes the crime statistics anyway, I’m sorry. They still don’t feel comfortable walking down a street in Memphis [or] these other places, unless they see the National Guard,” he said, referring to the president’s deployment of troops to multiple Democratic-run cities during his second term.

“I don’t want to hear any crime statistics, I just don’t,” Bannon added. “It’s not going to move the needle, it’s not going to matter in any voting. Let’s have some urgency, let’s light a fire.”