在特工人数减少、预算紧张的情况下，联邦调查局（FBI）在局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）领导下提起的刑事案件比前几届政府少了数千起，MS NOW 对司法部数据的审查显示。这一发现反驳了帕特尔反复声称的他领导了打击暴力犯罪的行动。
With fewer agents and a strained budget, the FBI under its director, Kash Patel, has brought thousands fewer criminal cases than previous administrations, an MS NOW review of Justice Department data shows. The findings rebut Patel’s repeated claims that he has led a crackdown on violent crime.
帕特尔吹嘘 FBI 逮捕了 5.4 万名暴力罪犯，并称这比拜登政府同期增加了 90%。他没有提到的是，他的统计数字因包含了州和地方警力及其他联邦机构在 FBI 员工在场时实施的逮捕而被夸大。FBI 承认，其中许多逮捕并非 FBI 的案件。
Patel has boasted that the FBI has arrested 54,000 violent criminals, which he describes as a 90% increase in arrests from the same period in the Biden administration. What he doesn’t mention is that his count is inflated by including arrests that state and local police forces and other federal agencies have made when an FBI employee is present. Many of those arrests are not FBI cases, the FBI acknowledges.
实际上，在特朗普第二任期内，FBI 移送联邦起诉的刑事案件比拜登政府同期减少了 15%。虽然 FBI 不将刑事移送按案件类型细分，但数据还显示，在特朗普政府前 16 个月中，司法部起诉的暴力犯罪案件比拜登政府同期减少了 15%。
In reality, the FBI has referred 15% fewer criminal cases for federal prosecution during the second Trump administration than during the same period in the Biden administration. And, while the FBI does not break down its criminal referrals into types of cases, the data also shows that the DOJ prosecuted 15% fewer cases of violent crimes during the first 16 months of the Trump administration than during the same period of the Biden administration.
在特朗普第二任期初期，联邦层面因暴力犯罪被起诉的人数比拜登同期少了近 3800 人——这与帕特尔的说法截然相反。该数字包括所有联邦机构移送的案件，不仅限于 FBI。
There were nearly 3,800 fewer people charged federally with violent crimes during the first part of the second Trump administration than during the comparable Biden period — the opposite of what Patel says. That figure includes cases referred from all federal agencies, not just the FBI.
MS NOW 分析了由“司法连线”（Justice Connection）获取并共享的公开司法部数据。该组织由前司法部和 FBI 员工组成，他们指控特朗普政府将司法部武器化，并打破长期以来备受推崇的规范，以追求唐纳德·特朗普总统的政治目的。这些数据涵盖所有有美国地区法院立案日期记录的刑事案件。
MS NOW analyzed public DOJ data obtained and shared by Justice Connection, a group of former DOJ and FBI employees who have accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the department and breaking long-revered norms to pursue President Donald Trump’s political ends. The data covers all criminal cases with a filing date recorded for a U.S. district court.
第二次特朗普政府的最大优先事项转变是与移民犯罪相关的逮捕和起诉数量大幅增加。帕特尔要求FBI特工协助移民执法，而这传统上并不是他们的职责范围。
The biggest priorities shift in the second Trump administration has been a huge increase in arrests and charges related to immigration crimes. Patel has required FBI agents to support immigration enforcement, which has traditionally not been part of their mission.
根据司法部公开的数据，2025年2月至2026年7月期间，移民案件占司法部提起的所有联邦刑事案件的59.3% — — 相比第一次特朗普政府同期的41.1%和拜登政府同期的35.5%，这一比例激增。
According to the public DOJ data, immigration cases comprised a whopping 59.3% of all federal criminal cases filed by the DOJ from February 2025 through July 2026 — compared to 41.1% over a similar period in the first Trump administration and 35.5% over a similar period in the Biden administration.
“卡什·帕特尔正在积极破坏数十年的统计完整性，只是为了迎合一种政治叙事，”前FBI高级官员、《国会山报》NOW栏目的撰稿人克里斯托弗·奥利里说。
“Kash Patel is actively dismantling decades of statistical integrity just to feed a political narrative,” said Christopher O’Leary, a former senior FBI official and MS NOW contributor.
“我们看到一个历史悠久的机构被简化为一种指标游戏，FBI正在抢夺其他执法机构和部门所作逮捕的功劳。这种人为夸大的统计数据是一个精心设计的烟幕弹，旨在掩盖内部混乱和经验丰富的人才大规模流失，通过制造一种根本不存在于实际工作中的生产力幻象，”他说。
“We are seeing a historic institution reduced to a metrics game, where the FBI is poaching credit for arrests made by other law enforcement agencies and departments. This artificial inflation of the stats is a deliberate smoke screen designed to mask internal chaos and the mass exodus of experienced talent by manufacturing an illusion of productivity that simply does not exist on the ground,” he said.
《国会山报》NOW对司法部数据的审查显示，帕特尔领导下的FBI不仅比拜登总统时期提起的刑事案件更少，而且甚至比第一次特朗普政府时期还少。根据司法部的数据，在克里斯托弗·雷担任FBI局长的第一次特朗普政府同期，FBI提起的刑事案件转介数量仍高于目前帕特尔领导下的同期数量。
Patel’s FBI is not just bringing fewer criminal cases than under former President Joe Biden — it’s also bringing fewer than it did under the first Trump term, the MS NOW review of DOJ data shows. The FBI has made fewer criminal referrals so far under Patel than during the same period of the first Trump administration, when Christopher Wray was FBI director, according to DOJ figures.
在向《国会山报》NOW的声明中，FBI并未质疑显示刑事转介减少的数据，但指出暴力犯罪率正在下降。然而，这一下降趋势早在2020年至2022年新冠疫情期间犯罪短暂激增之后，就已在全国范围内持续多年，并且一直在稳步下降。
In a statement to MS NOW, the FBI did not dispute the data showing a reduction in criminal referrals, but it pointed to the declining rate of violent crime. However, that decline has been a nationwide trend for several years after crime briefly spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022. It’s been steadily declining ever since.
“FBI及其执法合作伙伴实现了美国历史上暴力犯罪下降幅度最大的一年，创下自1936年以来全国谋杀率下降幅度最大的纪录，”FBI在一份声明中表示。
“This FBI and our law enforcement partners delivered the largest year of violent crime reduction in American history, achieved the most significant drop in the national murder rate ever recorded since 1936,” the FBI said in a statement.
帕特尔声称FBI的“暴力犯罪逮捕”人数增加了90%，但这一说法忽略了关键背景：帕特尔正在为其他机构的工作承担功劳。
Patel’s claim of a 90% increase in “violent crime arrests” by the FBI leaves out crucial context: that Patel is taking credit for the work of other agencies.
帕特尔新增计入州和地方逮捕人数，以及其他联邦机构的逮捕人数，使其FBI进展报告彻底改变了FBI统计案件的方式——将FBI并未参与的工作也计入其中。
By Patel newly including state and local arrests, as well as arrests by other federal agencies, his FBI progress report radically changes the way the FBI counts its cases to include work the FBI did not do.
根据司法部内部数据以及现任和前任官员的说法，FBI此前从未将其他机构的逮捕纳入其案件量。目前无法判断帕特尔如今声称功劳的地方警察逮捕中，有多少即使没有FBI的介入也会发生。
The FBI has not previously counted other agency arrests as part of its caseload, according to internal DOJ data and the accounts of current and former officials. There is no way to say how many of the local police arrests — which Patel now claims credit for — would have been made regardless of the FBI’s presence.
在向MS NOW的声明中，FBI否认其改变了逮捕统计方式，称其始终包括“FBI在案件和调查中有股权的暴力犯罪逮捕”。但多名前FBI官员对MS NOW表示，这一说法不实。
In its statement to MS NOW, the FBI disputed that it changed how it tallies arrests, saying it has always included “violent crime arrests where the FBI has equity in the case and investigation.”That is false, multiple former FBI officials told MS NOW.
前FBI特工丹尼尔·布雷默表示，FBI此前一直抵制将州和地方逮捕计入FBI业绩。
Former FBI agent Daniel Bremer said the FBI previously always resisted counting state and local arrests as FBI achievements.
“从未有过这样的做法，”他说。“当特工尝试这样做时，总会在地方分部受到阻力。总部不希望出现虚假数据，他们想要来自一线的真实情况。”布雷默说，FBI会单独统计特工协助地方执法的频率，但不会将这些算作FBI行动。帕特尔领导下的FBI与众不同。
“It’s never been done,” he said. “And when agents attempted to do it, it was always pushed back on at the local division. Headquarters did not want false numbers, they wanted the truth from the field.”Bremer said the FBI would keep separate stats on how often agents assisted local law enforcement but didn’t count those as FBI operations. Patel’s FBI is different.
例如，FBI在9月宣布路易斯安那州“夏季行动”成果时，官员称FBI与超过两打地方、州和联邦执法机构合作，逮捕了662人。该声明未说明其中有多少是FBI的逮捕行动。
For example, when the FBI in September announced the results of “Operation Summer Heat” in Louisiana, officials said the FBI partnered with more than two dozen local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to arrest 662 individuals. The release did not say which, if any, were FBI arrests.
在全国范围内，联邦调查局在打击暴力犯罪方面发挥的作用微乎其微。该机构的主要职责是调查大型犯罪网络、复杂的犯罪阴谋以及各类国家安全威胁。全美共有约13,000名联邦调查局特工，而各地经宣誓就职的执法人员数量则高达约788,000人。不过即便如此，这一人数差距仍未能充分体现联邦调查局在打击暴力犯罪方面的有限影响力——因为大多数特工其实并不全职负责处理暴力犯罪案件。谋杀、强奸、抢劫等暴力犯罪行为主要由各州及地方执法部门依据州法律及州法院来处理。
The FBI plays a very small role in policing violent crime nationwide, and has focused on investigating major criminal networks and complex conspiracies, as well as threats to national security. There are approximately 13,000 FBI agents, compared to around 788,000 sworn law enforcement officers across the country. But even that disparity underplays the small role the FBI plays in policing violence, because most FBI agents do not work full-time on violent crime cases. Murder, rape, robbery and other criminal violence are largely a matter for state and local law enforcement, using state laws and state courts.
自“9·11”事件以来，打击恐怖主义便成为联邦调查局的首要任务。该机构还致力于追捕外国间谍、查处政治腐败与白领犯罪，并瓦解各类复杂的犯罪计划及有组织犯罪活动。
Since the 9/11 attacks, the FBI’s priority mission has been stopping terrorism. The bureau is also devoted to hunting foreign spies, ferreting out political corruption and white collar fraud, and disrupting complex criminal schemes and organized crime.
此外，联邦政府公布的数据显示，自特朗普上任并任命帕特尔为联邦调查局局长以来，该机构的工作人员数量大幅减少。据现任及前任联邦调查局官员透露，自2025年1月起，该局已流失1,600多名刑事调查员及335名分析员，且其中多数职位至今尚未填补。与此同时，联邦调查局的预算增长也远远赶不上通货膨胀的速度。
Moreover, federal data shows the FBI has suffered a major reduction in its workforce since Trump came into office and installed Patel as the agency’s director. The bureau has lost more than 1,600 criminal investigators and 335 analysts since January 2025. Most of them have not been replaced, current and former FBI officials say. And the FBI’s budget has not kept up with inflation.
若仅从表面数据来看，帕特尔所称的联邦调查局实施或参与了54,000次逮捕这一数字，在更宏观的背景下其实并无太大意义。根据联邦调查局的统计数据，自2025年1月以来，全美各地的逮捕总数已高达1,130万次。
And taken at face value, Patel’s count of the FBI making or participating in 54,000 arrests shrinks in significance when taken into broader context. There have been 11.3 million arrests nationwide since January 2025, according to the same FBI data.
“你们在谈论杯水车薪，”曾任中央情报局分析员、研究犯罪统计数据的杰夫·阿舍尔说。“联邦特遣队可能非常有用，但作为因果因素，它们在统计上往往不显著。”芝加哥大学犯罪趋势专家约翰·罗曼说，帕特尔在联邦调查局在场时将地方逮捕归功于自己的新方法，很可能反映了本届政府下联邦调查局优先事项的戏剧性转变。
“You’re talking about a drop in the bucket,” said Jeff Asher, a former CIA analyst who studies crime stats. “Federal task forces can be very useful, but as causal factors they tend not to be statistically significant.”John Roman, an expert on crime trends at the University of Chicago, said Patel’s new method of taking credit for local arrests when the FBI is present likely reflects the dramatic shift in FBI priorities under this administration.
罗曼表示，在联邦调查局协助下加强的移民突袭行动肯定会导致更多随联邦调查局一起进行的地方逮捕。但这并不一定能确保联邦调查局资源的最佳使用，或让美国人更安全。
Stepped up immigration raids, with FBI assistance, will certainly lead to more local arrests with FBI in tow, Roman said. But it doesn’t necessarily ensure the best use of FBI resources or make Americans safer.
“问题在于：我们真的在把坏人从街上清除，并通过威慑阻止他人犯罪吗？”罗曼问道。
“The question is: are we really getting bad people off the streets and deterring crime by others?”Roman asked.
上周，联邦调查局在X平台上的快速反应账号发布了一段制作精良的视频，描绘帕特尔如何彻底改革了联邦调查局的做法，并取得了显著成效。在专家指出该视频违反了禁止政府参与政治的法律——因为它贬低了民主党人——之后，联邦调查局将其删除。一位发言人未就为何删除视频作出回应。
The FBI’s Rapid Response account on X put out a slickly produced video last week, portraying Patel as having overhauled the FBI’s approach, to great effect. After experts said the video violated the law against government participation in politics because it disparaged Democrats, the FBI took it down. A spokesperson did not respond to questions about why.
“帕特尔的联邦调查局将打击暴力犯罪定为使命，”视频旁白说。“它将超过一千个职位从华盛顿调往一线，拆解帮派，切断芬太尼供应，并将暴力罪犯从街上清除。
“Patel’s FBI made crushing violent crime the mission,” the narrator in the video says. “It moved more than one thousand positions out of Washington and into the field, dismantling gangs, choking off fentanyl, and taking violent offenders off the street.
“而且它奏效了。自帕特尔于2025年2月上任以来，暴力犯罪逮捕人数约为五万四千人，增加了大约百分之九十；超过三万一千个帮派被瓦解；查获芬太尼超过三千二百公斤。
“And it worked. Since Patel took charge in February 2025, about fifty-four thousand violent crime arrests, up roughly ninety percent; more than thirty-one thousand gangs disrupted; over three thousand two hundred kilograms of fentanyl seized.
“这才是帕特尔局长下的以犯罪为首要任务的联邦调查局。”现任和前任联邦调查局官员表示，这些说法具有深度误导性。
“That’s a crime-first FBI under Director Patel.”Current and former FBI officials say these claims are deeply misleading.
“他在为其他机构的努力抢功，”前FBI特工、MS NOW贡献者迈克尔·费因伯格说。“绝大多数暴力犯罪是州和地方犯罪。”费因伯格说，FBI可以通过使用联邦反有组织犯罪法，对暴力犯罪团伙采取创造性方法，但在帕特尔任上并没有证据表明这种方法有所增加。事实上，数据显示，被起诉的联邦犯罪案件反而在减少。
“He’s taking credit for other agencies’ efforts,” said Michael Feinberg, a former FBI agent and MS NOW contributor. “The vast majority of violent crime are state and local offenses.”The FBI can bring a creative approach to violent crime gangs by using federal racketeering statutes, Feinberg said, but there is no evidence of any increase in that approach under Patel. In fact, the data shows that fewer federal crimes are being prosecuted.
FBI没有回应这一说法，但表示：“我们比以往任何时候都更加强调部门间协作，在华盛顿特区、田纳西州孟菲斯等关键地区加大力度，取得了控制暴力犯罪的成果。因此，孟菲斯今年夏天报告的谋杀案下降了50%，华盛顿特区的谋杀案数量有望降至1990年以来的最低水平。”第二届特朗普政府执法资源的最大转变并非针对暴力犯罪，而是针对移民执法和起诉。
The FBI did not address this claim but said, “We are putting a stronger emphasis on interagency coordination than we ever have, with surges in key areas like Washington D.C., Memphis TN, and more delivering successes to get violent crime under control. As a result, Memphis reported a 50% decrease in homicides this summer, and Washington D.C. is on track for its lowest homicide numbers since 1990.”The biggest shift of law enforcement resources in the second Trump Administration has not been towards violent crime, but towards immigration enforcement and prosecutions.
帕特尔在公开场合就犯罪和执法问题发表的一些值得注意——且具有误导性或虚假性——的言论如下：在对MS NOW的回应中，FBI没有针对这些例子作出任何回应。
Some notable — and misleading or false — claims about crime and enforcement Patel has made in public appearances: In its response to MS NOW, the FBI did not address any of these examples.