Crime in the U.S.: Key questions answered | Pew Research Center
Crime in the U.S.: Key questions answered | Pew Research Center
Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
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Generally-speaking, people in the US are more-concerned about crime than last year, and generally-speaking, over time, each year, believe that crime is up.
Overall, crime has actually pretty substantially fallen over the past three decades.
Its very difficult to change peoples minds because the media strives to promote violence as the #1 news story most of the time.
The belief is ingrained and even data from FBI isnt enough to sway them
"Nobody got mugged" doesn't draw a lot of clicks.
And there's the Summer of the Shark.
I had actually forgotten about that. Sept. 11 kinda over shadowed everything that happened in the 2000’s.
I am really disappointed in how crime is reported in the US. I think it contributes to the lack of police reform. If the average person actually had a good picture of what is going on, including with policing, we could have such a better situation in the US. More folks would be pushing for effective law enforcement reform.