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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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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Thank you for breaking it down further.
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But my question is... If the overall crime is in fact low and perception high, why not publish overall crime being low instead of telling us that but showing a graph that doesn't reflect that and not state it in the article?
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That's the graph that Pew made. Your nitpicky complaint is with them. And you're not really asking a question. You're trying to make a point. And it is stated in the article, twice. It's not like violent crime is up and property crime is down. There is no issue here.
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