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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You're not exactly comparing similar data. Not only is your data sourced from an organization backed with questionable scientific methods, but the data you're showing here is drug overdose deaths in one city over time, compared to the OP's violent crime nationally over time
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In SF's case, a 4-year spike in drug overdoses is concerning of course, but the current scientific consensus around drug use like this is that it's a downstream effect of other factors; poor economic conditions leading to self-medication combined with an easily accessible drug...
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Overdosing isn't a crime, btw.
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