Thank you for dispelling this myth!
Trump has been talking a lot about crime this summer. That could tap into Americans' inaccurate belief that crime is rising - when it's actually been falling for decades.
Why are Americans so wrong about crime? My story with @maggiekb1 @fivethirtyeighthttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-convinced-crime-is-rising-in-the-u-s-theyre-wrong/ …
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Maybe because crime is always a leading story on news stations? “If it bleeds...”
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"Devastating toll of Chicago’s violence: Number of shooting victims younger than 10 years old three times higher than last year " oops !
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One very specific type of crime rising in one specific city doesn’t come even close to meaning its rising in America overall.
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"Portland police record highest number of death investigations in single month in more than three decades " oops !
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"NYC has had more shootings so far this year than in all of 2019 " ooops !
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Not that ordinary Americans listen to non-Americans about this sort of thing, but by European/Japanese/Korean standards the US *is* still a high-crime country.
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All indications are that crime is way up in 2020, though.
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