They think that because news media all runs on the adage, “If it bleeds, it leads.” 24/7 coverage of every murder in the nation just might make people think murders are on the rise.
Regular old Mean World Syndrome.
Now include police
Now do property crime and other crimes to see if the trend holds true…
The biggest problem the public faces is the negative fucks who when faced with unquestionably positive news, decide to shit their pants and start arguing about something else.
"The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet nearly 13% compared to 2022, meaning more than 2,000 fewer people were the victims of homicide this year, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.
The FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which analyzed data from 15,897 law enforcement agencies, the largest single-year jump in murders in more than a century occurred between 2019 and 2020 as murders and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses nationwide rose nearly 30%.
Homicides across the country continued to increase in 2021 by 4.3% before falling by 6% in 2022, according to the FBI report.“The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet nearly 13% compared to 2022, meaning more than 2,000 fewer people were the victims of homicide this year, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.”
So the murder rate is still above 2019 levels. All of those people who are worried about crime must be morons who have fallen for misinformation, clearly.
I’m pretty sure something significant happened late 2019, but I can’t quite recall what.
Well in that case I guess it’s OK that 4 years later the murder rate remains elevated. I keep forgetting that Because The Pandemic is a valid excuse for literally everything.
So the murder rate is still above 2019 levels. All of those people who are worried about crime must be morons who have fallen for misinformation, clearly.
But still under pre-'93 levels. Crime has fallen steadily in the US since '93, and although we have had a pop since iirc 2016, we never reached pre '93 levels during it, and now that pop seems to be slowing down.
Which is largely irrelevant to most people today.
Anyone that’s younger than around 40 were kids in 1993 and not really paying attention to national crime statistics. If they were born yet at all.
I was born in 91, and I’m now in my 30s with kids of my own in school. I don’t give a shit what the crime rate was when I was two, I care about what it is now. I keep up with things and know that the increase from 2019-2021 was largely Covid related and it’s decreasing again, but the vast majority of people don’t pay that much attention, and to them crime is absolutely up since a few years ago.
