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

When Repubs speak of "crime," they mean violence on the streets. I remember how as crime rates dropped for over 30 years straight, many people we knew knew they were rising. "Everyone" knew that.

I'm hoping this period of of watching big-time white collar criminals at work as if they could never be arrested has been a big wake-up. I've read that many who made very good money honestly chose to switch to crime because they found breaking and being "above" the law more satisfying. (!) I've also heard a few of those ex- federal prosecutors we see on cable say these criminals are typically shocked and unbelieving when they're arrested as if they were ordinary people.

After these lessons on TV day after day, just maybe we'll put more of the fear of the people in them they should always have had...

are all about if it bleeds it leads. Total nutso here in Vegas lately with this crap. As per the Metro stats,our number one Crime thing is Drunk Drivers wiping out innocent people.

To try to convince fellow DUers with hard facts that we aren't seeing a spike in violent crime. It....doesn't get much traction.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/07/181998015/rate-of-u-s-gun-violence-has-fallen-since-1993-study-says

I try to avoid getting swayed too much by news stories and anecdotes, such as videos posted online. Much of that tragic stuff is never seen by me in my life, so I'll need some broad statistics before extrapolating that there's a growing problem with this or that.

Whether it's videos of "Karens" or Fox News focusing on the worst behavior during protests, I need better evidence that something is more widespread than in the past.