Many Americans Are Convinced Crime Is Rising In The U.S. They’re Wrong.

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Many Americans are convinced crime is rising in the U.S. They're wrong. Via FiveThirtyEight:

. And there are plenty of crimes we don’t really track well in data — like vandalism, drug use and sales, or public intoxication — which can affect how safe people feel in their neighborhoods, even if the crimes aren’t serious.

The way the polls are worded also don’t help. “The polling tends to be pretty generic,” said Lisa L. Miller, a political scientist at Rutgers University who studies crime and punishment, which makes it hard to capture the difference between how Americans think about murder and litter when it comes to how safe they feel. More importantly, she said, questions like “Do you think crime has gone up or down?” is not the same thing as measuring fear.

“All the homicides in Chicago occur in about 8 percent of the city’s census tracts,” Skogan said. For almost everybody, he said, that means “the crime you hear about is crime somewhere else.” And that matters because research suggeststhan they are at estimating what it’s like across town, or across the country.

people perceive their neighborhood as more dangerous — regardless of the actual crime rate — if more young Black men live there

 

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FiveThirtyEight It depends what 'is' is.

FiveThirtyEight No brainer , only in democratic run cities it’s is on the rise

FiveThirtyEight Fake news

FiveThirtyEight Murder is up but you’re wrong for thinking crime is increasing! -you

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FiveThirtyEight In cities where the police are being defunded, crime is skyrocketing. To sit there and say that crime is not rising, is factually incorrect.

FiveThirtyEight Oh lol! Now your going to try the 'there is no there there' stories.

FiveThirtyEight Fake news.....

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FiveThirtyEight Fake news obviously

FiveThirtyEight ABC trying to protect racist demorats gunning black children down in cities to get Trump, sick, sick people!

FiveThirtyEight It is rising.......in Whitehouse GOP

FiveThirtyEight Just in blue cities where they want to defund the police.

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FiveThirtyEight Great. Overall crime rate isn't as bad as people think it is. How's the murder rate in Chicago going? gfy abc 'news'.

FiveThirtyEight Ummmmmmmmmmmmm..... we have eyes and ears ya know...

FiveThirtyEight You’re talking about the “many” (😒)Americans that listened to Trump, who, by the way, was mysteriously quiet about “law and order” when those armed folks stormed their state capital🤔

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FiveThirtyEight Hold the news corporations like ABC accountable and they'll start telling the truth. The second you stop holding them accountable they'll go back to propaganda and spam stories about house cats with unique talents.

FiveThirtyEight i’ve never seen such stupidity

FiveThirtyEight Conservatives like to lie about how bad crime is so their white supremacy seems justified. The only crime that is actually on the rise is Trump and his cronies stealing taxpayer dollars to enrich themselves.

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FiveThirtyEight Violence rising only in blue states by blm and Antifa. Another fake right wing conspiracy theory.

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FiveThirtyEight Guess you don’t live anywhere near a major city like NYC then.

FiveThirtyEight Lol

FiveThirtyEight make America sick again

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FiveThirtyEight 😂🤣😂 Disney News Network always good for some revisionism.

FiveThirtyEight Seriously?!!

FiveThirtyEight It’s certainly rising in NYC!

FiveThirtyEight Lol.

FiveThirtyEight So, Trump has helped lower crime in America? Great!

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