Violent crime has plummeted in past 20 yrs, but majority of U.S. believes it worse than ever: http://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2014/10/21/the-sky-is-falling-and-the-boogeyman-is-chasing-me/ …pic.twitter.com/qyL1uohpWf
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Our political & media elites are worse than useless when it comes to economic issues, but all too eager to fuel irrational panic over crime.
@ChMadar very likely!-- but also disproportionate media attention on crime skews public perception?
@AnneSilver You beat me to it! See my next tweet in this chain…
@ChMadar "Are Americans channelling (rational) anxiety over increased economic insecurity into (irrational) panic over crime?...and disease?
@ustvmedia Good point!
@ChMadar hm, it'd be interesting to see crime perception plotted alongside economic indicators (w/actual crime stats for differential)
@schakalsynthetc Me too. Which indicators though? Unemployment perhaps not so meaningful as indices of precariousness & downward mobility.
@ChMadar yeah, also actual and perceived economic distress don't necessarily match either, so y'd have to account for that somehow
@ChMadar subjective optimism/pessimism (from survey data) probably as good an indicator as any, for the purpose. idk
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