Almost 80 percent of Americans, and 92 percent of Republicans, think crime has gone up. It actually fell in 2023. An expert blames a familiar culprit for the mistaken impression.
I had no idea the violent crime rates had decreased to pre-pandemic levels. That's huge, and ofc none of the regular sources want to talk about something so positive.
The pro-cop propaganda machine needs you to always be afraid of rising crime. It's how they keep literally getting away with murder.
Also how they trick people into electing corrupt authoritarians into office, even in places with largely progressive populations like Portland, New York and San Francisco.
Idk if it's that deep, negative news just sell better. It's the same problem everywhere else, including countries where police brutality is a non-issue.
Here's one even better for you, our homicide rate is nearly half of what it was in the 70s and 80s and has been shrinking every year (pandemic being an outlier).
The crime rate going up or down is heavily dependent on how you shape the numbers. Crime might go up in Chicago one month while it goes down in LA. Homicides may decrease but identity thefts may grow. Crime in the 2020s might be on average higher than it was in the 2010s, but the COVID years are an outlier in the grand picture. New York could have no crimes tomorrow and their crime rate would be zero if you measure only over the span of a day.
People search for data to prove they are right rather than search for what their opinion should be.
The US is, and has been for decades, increasingly safer.
Crime in the United States has declined significantly over the last year, according to new FBI data that contradicts a widespread national perception that law-breaking and violence are on the rise.
A Gallup poll released this month found that 77% of Americans believe crime rates are worsening, but they are mistaken, the new FBI data and other statistics show.
Yet 92% of Republicans, 78% of independents and 58% of Democrats believe crime is rising, the Gallup survey shows.
The most recent annual report, released in October, covered 94% of the country and found that violent crime in 2022 fell back to pre-pandemic levels, with murder dropping 6.1%.
A few cities, including Memphis and Washington DC, are still seeing increases in their murder rates, but they are outliers.
Videos of flash mobs on shop lifting sprees or carjackings in broad day light are more ubiquitous, even if those crimes are not.
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Idk, we got companies breaking labor laws left and right, former POTUS caught stealing docs from 338m citizens and police searching classrooms for contraband books daily.