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.

  • @afraid_of_zombiesEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    You know if you weren’t roving around screaming “I am the knight rider a fuel infected suicide machine” they wouldn’t get the Mad Max vibe. Here come in my weird helicopter thing, and I will show you.