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 …
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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It would be disingenuous to include crab apple consumption because it is a rarity, you can't possibly say violent crime is a rare subset of crime.
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