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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Public perception of crime and actual data on crime often don’t correlate. These graphs run 1993-2016. You can see the actual drop in crime reflected in perception at first, but then perceived crime rose as actual violent crime kept declining. Most likely explanation is media.pic.twitter.com/awCwS5gY3i
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Is this not crime and crime producing?? You are wrong
@chesaboudin. You are ignoring data and data which isn’t exactly explicitly captured.pic.twitter.com/wUTcFukmQb
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Overdosing isn't a crime, btw.
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Correct. Killing people by overdose is. It’s a proxy for dealing and related crime, genius.
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Are you alleging murder by overdose? That's not what that chart indicates. Accidentally killing yourself is not a crime. It can't be used as a proxy for crime as not all of the deaths are from illegally obtained drugs - it's not separating them out, you see. It's all deaths.
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