Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong.
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Almost 80 percent of Americans, and 92 percent of Republicans, think crime has gone up. It actually fell in 2023. An expert blames a familiar culprit for the mistaken impression.

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If people aren’t panicked, they wouldn’t elect panic-pandering politicians, so there must always be a panic — crime, drugs, commies, libruls, etc.

  • Restaldt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    10 months ago

    Where i am at people have lost all hope or any kind of belief in the police force

    People aren’t reporting everything as they have collectively decided our police force is useless past a police report for insurance

    And they more or less are

    • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      105·
      10 months ago

      I think that’s a sentiment that’s bred from the outrage based news cycle. Our local police just caught a pedo in our neighborhood in 2 days (and we found out they were watching that person about 6 hours after the initial call to the police).

      Police still do great work and a ton to protect and serve. That stuff doesn’t make national news cycles and it doesn’t sell articles.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      I would guess you live in Philadelphia except here the cops aren’t even useful for insurance reports. I called them once to ask for a policeman to come do a VIN check on a bus I had just bought so I could get it registered, and the dispatcher said “nah” and hung up on me.