In 2020 we saw a spike and now both violent and property crime is down nationwide to near 60 year lows.
But it's hard to tell anyone that because social media seems to focus on crime now.
Nextdoor and Ring cameras are new. Before Ring, if there was someone checking car doors in a neighborhood, no one ever saw it. And if they found one unlocked and took something from it, no one ever heard about it before NextDoor and to a lesser extent Facebook were posting about it.
I live in a sub division with literally 0 crime. We haven't had a single crime reported in our sub division in years. Not a home break in, not a car break in, not vandalism, no porch pirates, not even a domestic issue. None, you can look at our city's crime map and go back and see literally 0 crimes in my about 80 house sub. Yet I have neighbors more vigilant than ever, because, "It's getting so bad here now." Zero crime, none, nada, zilch. You could literally leave your house unlocked and your keys in your car for years on end and have no worries in my sub division. And I've still got paranoid neighbors who think it's a crime zone riddled with incidents all the time.
The way the media bombards you with crime news has never been more extreme. One thing I notice in local news websites is national stories whose headlines present like it's local in regards to crime. So you're reading a headline about some murder, or even some weird break in, and unless you read the story to find out it's in a town 1000 miles away, you'll thinkit's local. I notice this all the time. The local MLive for me (Michigan) carries all the local stories, but then adds a couple crime stories from some other city constantly.
And what's more, people are oblivious to the fact that the hgih crime in this country is mostly in Red States. The Red States have the worstr economies, worst schools, worst health care, worst social safety nets, and worst criminal justice systems. It's why crime is so bad in so many Red States. But the media is all in on California and Chicago being the places where crime is the worst.
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