An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

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New FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s, but the media disproportionately covers crime, so most Americans aren’t aware of the decrease.

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An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year. An overwhelming majority of Americans are wrong.

On Tuesday, August 5, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released its comprehensive report on crime in the United States for 2024. As crime data expert Jeff Asher noted, not only did the report reveal that overall crime was down substantially in 2024, but crime “fell in 2024 across every category and population group.” Specifically, it “was down in all seven categories of crime across all 10 population groups that the FBI measures.”

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  • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I put a lot of blame on the Nextdoor app. Every other post in my area is some ignorant suburbanite complaining about some “suspicious” kid in a hoodie walking past their doorbell cam.