The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It: The decline in reported crimes is a function of less reporting

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Originally Posted by AtkinsonDan

All of it is valid even though it may conflict. Human perceptions have never been all around consistent. Personally I'd give more weight to a detailed opinion from a real person than a piece from any corporatized media source.

The best example I'd ask you to explain where an individual account carries more weight than a media report. What of the NYC Central Park birdwatcher? The black man who was doing nothing more than enjoying his hobby until he encountered a woman who promptly called the police stating she was be harassed by him after he informed her that the dog she was walking was running loose in a park sanctioned leash only area.

It turned out, after the media reported and police investigated the incident that she was nothing more than your garden-variety racist and was later fired from her job on Wall Street. With all the facets surrounding a case like this and others just like it, it appears your basic stance remains victims (in the loosest sense of the word) 'feelies' are/should be the prime arbitrator of if a crime or a sense of the fear of crime has occurred and media accounts have the least credibility if not outright fabrication of the nature of incident reporting.

To be honest, that sounds to me like simply blaming the messenger, but please correct me given the example I just provided.

[xray731]

Originally Posted by WVNomad

Part of the reason they, and disaffected Republicans, vote for Democrats is the alternatives they face on the ballot. When people like Trump, JD Vance, MTG, Lee, Mastriano, etc. are on the ballot, they are not going to appeal to center-left (and even center-right) voters. People don’t just vote for who they prefer; they are also making an evaluation of who they don’t want to be elected. I’m no fan of Biden, but I’ll vote for him since my option is Trump. Had Haley or Christie been the Republican nominee, I would have supported them.

Why would you vote for someone who wants to get us into war - sorry but when I was a Dem we were the ones protesting against sending our children overseas to fight someone else's war. We were the Doves - the Republicans were the Hawks - now it's the other way around.

[Goodnight]

Originally Posted by Corrie22

"In 2021, the FBI changed how it collects data from police departments, and as a result, that year’s crime data missed nearly 40% of police agencies."

"the change led to the most incomplete picture of national crime since the FBI began collecting data in the 1930s,"

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2...s-ucr-fbi-2022

The FBI changed the reporting system in 2021, that publication doesn't indicate where 40% of data was missing but there were gaps due to the change. Still overall violent crime on the national level is trending down other than the increase during the pandemic. The 90's were much worse.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-wo...ime-statistics