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.

  • Dizzy Devil DuckyEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    The people who actually believe crime is rising clearly need to take the plastic bag off of their heads and remove themselves from the hole they’ve been living under for more than a century.

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      It’s unleaded gasoline, I think. They took the lead out of gasoline, and crime rates went way down in subsequent generations.

      Also, just FYI cuz it’s weird, yours is one of three comments from lemm.ee accounts that didn’t reach me until today 1/1/24, six days after they’d been posted.