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.

  • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think that’s a sentiment that’s bred from the outrage based news cycle. Our local police just caught a pedo in our neighborhood in 2 days (and we found out they were watching that person about 6 hours after the initial call to the police).

    Police still do great work and a ton to protect and serve. That stuff doesn’t make national news cycles and it doesn’t sell articles.