Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
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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Safe in that particular aspect of crime. In other aspects it was in more danger than it had ever been before. Aspects like "sliding into fascism" springs to mind for some reason.
... crime "fell in 2024 across every category and population group" [and] "was down in all seven categories of crime across all 10 population groups"
... both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s
... [But] media coverage of crime is not proportionate to actual crime trends. Local news is predominantly filled with crime coverage, and “local stations manipulate crime and violence as a marketing strategy,” according to a report by the Sentencing Project. Studies have estimated that local news coverage “devote[s] one-third to one-fourth of their airtime to crime stories.” Local news also “concentrate[s] on uncommon but sensational incidents of violence.”
... Politicians often utilize crime as a talking point, leading the media to cover crime more frequently. A 2022 analysis by Bloomberg found that, after New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who made crime a major point of his campaign, was elected, coverage of crime in New York City increased dramatically.
By bolding "every category", are you implying that sliding into fascism was one of the categories they tracked?