Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong.
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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.

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If people aren’t panicked, they wouldn’t elect panic-pandering politicians, so there must always be a panic — crime, drugs, commies, libruls, etc.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’ve been saying this for years and nobody on any side cares, they just want to be angry about something. Crime fell steadily from '93-'16 (except MA, crime started falling a little later than '93 there), and only had a slight uptick from 2016-now, still not at pre-'93 levels though. Looks like as per the article that pop is ending. I think the biggest problem there is the 24hr news cycle even existing, and the fact that they try to keep you enraged and watching by pushing only shit that’ll make you angry enough to come back and watch more.

    Well I for one am fucking done with it, give me a 24hr happy/uplifting news channel and I’ll consider watching.