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"SO… WHY ARE WE SO WORRIED ABOUT CRIME?
CRIME DOWN, PERCEPTION OF CRIME UP:
“Take murder. The murder rate rose and fell over the 20th century, climbing to an early peak in 1933, then dropping sharply and staying low through the Depression, World War II, and into the 1960s. It rose to a record level in 1974, broke that record in 1980, and stayed prodigiously bloody through the early ’90s. This is when Bill Clinton boosted funding for local police forces, and police began experimenting with radical new approaches to policing, such as those employed in the so-called Boston Miracle. In 1994, the murder rate started to fall, and it’s been falling ever since. Rape, robbery, and aggravated assault have dropped along with it. Last year was no exception. According to preliminary FBI data, the murder rate dropped 10 percent from 2008 to 2009, robbery fell 6.5 percent, aggravated assault fell 3.2 percent, auto theft was down a whopping 18.7 percent.
But as the crime rate has dropped, Americans have missed the news. The number of people who told Gallup that crime is getting worse climbed to 74 percent last year, a figure higher than any year since the carnage of the early ’90s.”
From this op-ed by Joe Keohane: Joe Keohane The crime wave in our heads Dallas Morning News
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Are internet communications, and greater awareness of the world repsonsible? In generations past, we weren't as aware of the rest of our own country nevermind the world as we are now. Is this awareness of more people and the things that some of them do responsible for our rising doom and gloom outlook when the facts suggest things are getting better and safer?
"SO… WHY ARE WE SO WORRIED ABOUT CRIME?
CRIME DOWN, PERCEPTION OF CRIME UP:
“Take murder. The murder rate rose and fell over the 20th century, climbing to an early peak in 1933, then dropping sharply and staying low through the Depression, World War II, and into the 1960s. It rose to a record level in 1974, broke that record in 1980, and stayed prodigiously bloody through the early ’90s. This is when Bill Clinton boosted funding for local police forces, and police began experimenting with radical new approaches to policing, such as those employed in the so-called Boston Miracle. In 1994, the murder rate started to fall, and it’s been falling ever since. Rape, robbery, and aggravated assault have dropped along with it. Last year was no exception. According to preliminary FBI data, the murder rate dropped 10 percent from 2008 to 2009, robbery fell 6.5 percent, aggravated assault fell 3.2 percent, auto theft was down a whopping 18.7 percent.
But as the crime rate has dropped, Americans have missed the news. The number of people who told Gallup that crime is getting worse climbed to 74 percent last year, a figure higher than any year since the carnage of the early ’90s.”
From this op-ed by Joe Keohane: Joe Keohane The crime wave in our heads Dallas Morning News
"
Are internet communications, and greater awareness of the world repsonsible? In generations past, we weren't as aware of the rest of our own country nevermind the world as we are now. Is this awareness of more people and the things that some of them do responsible for our rising doom and gloom outlook when the facts suggest things are getting better and safer?
