Crime isn’t at a 20-year high, but concern about it is. Partly prospect theory (getting worse/better matters, not just overall level), and part reminds me that the US murder rate was higher in the 1980s but people thought it was higher in the ‘90s. In the ‘90s, more murder on TV.https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1410904505340895233 …
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It isn't contradictory, violent crime is a subset of crime. Your quibble should be for the chart to use the general "crime" stat. Perhaps, but this does not disprove the hypothesis.
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It is not presented as a hypothesis. It is presented as a conclusion based on stats that do not reflect each other. If "perceived" apple consumption rises and one says it is not rising because crab apple consumption is the same... Then one would surely be disingenuous at best.
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And current crime numbers are not available, if you use FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data, the latest report available is 2019.https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr/ …
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Well then how did the original poster conclude that "crime isn't at a 20-year high"? Strange.
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And exactly what sort of decriminalization are you talking about? Marijuana decriminalization? If you think drugs cause crime, check out Portugal and their experience.
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If you care to read the article from which this graph was taken, you'll see that the author twice references a drop in property crime.https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-perceptions-of-crime-continue-to-conflict-with-reality/ …
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And, while you seem keen to close-read the tweet into oblivion, you ignore the fact that it the type of crime sensationalized by the media, obviously, is violent crime. Thereby causing a public perception of increased crime, violent or otherwise.
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