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    The Crime Rate Perception Gap

    Our perceptions lag behind.

    The Crime Rate Perception Gap



    There’s a persistent belief across America that crime is on the rise.

    Since the late 1980s, Gallup has been polling people on their perception of crime in the United States, and consistently, the majority of respondents indicate that they see crime as becoming more prevalent. As well, a recent poll showed that more than two-thirds of Americans feel that today’s youth are less safe from crime and harm than the previous generation.

    Even the highest ranking members of the government have been suggesting that the country is in the throes of a crime wave....
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    The "criminal" is getting smaller.
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    Crime is going down for a few reasons, first everyone knows theres cameras everywhere, escaping capture and arrest is undescribably harder today than decades past.

    There is a perception that cell phone cameras are just used to film police, cell phone videos are brought into police stations and precincts ROUTINELY showing crimes in progress and who does them.

    My son in laws both tell me that people approach them on the street and show them videos of crimes. Children filming fights between their parents and neighbors etc.

    Its harder to be a theif today, there is much less cash in circulation than there was before. The days of serial purse snatchers making big scores are over and the CAMERA WILL most likely get you.

    Theres other reasons but all in the same vein
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    Thats an encouraging drop from the peak levels of the crack epidemic early 1990's
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Crime is going down for a few reasons, first everyone knows theres cameras everywhere, ...
    and the CAMERA WILL most likely get you.
    Hooray for Amerika.

    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Our perceptions lag behind.

    The Crime Rate Perception Gap
    Arrests are up. Something hinky?



    SOMEONE IS ARRESTED in the United States every three seconds. While arrests are the first entryway into a criminal justice system most acknowledge is in dire need of reform, we know remarkably little about who is arrested, where, and why. Advocates and legislators have pushed in recent years for policy changes at various points of the justice process, from pretrial to sentencing, but arrests remain one of the largest and least scrutinized contributors to the country’s mass incarceration and policing crises. ...

    “There’s a growing understanding that the problems of policing are not limited to a few high-profile deaths but are the result of a broader problem of over-policing,” said Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College and author of a book that argues for alternatives to policing rather than police reform. “The solution to this is not making police arrests friendlier or more professional: It’s to quit relying on arrests to solve any problem under the sun.”...

    “There’s some type of disconnect between what’s going on in the prosecutors’ offices and what’s going on with the police,” said Vitale, noting that police maintain significant discretion to make arrests over pretextual reasons. “Failure to prosecute doesn’t mean that the police can’t still arrest you, put you through the system, bring you to arraignment.”
    ...


    Arresting Everyone Doesn’t Make Anyone Safer


    Read more here: https://theintercept.com/2019/01/31/...te-of-justice/
    You are wrong about police.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Crime is going down for a few reasons, first everyone knows theres cameras everywhere, escaping capture and arrest is undescribably harder today than decades past.

    There is a perception that cell phone cameras are just used to film police, cell phone videos are brought into police stations and precincts ROUTINELY showing crimes in progress and who does them.

    My son in laws both tell me that people approach them on the street and show them videos of crimes. Children filming fights between their parents and neighbors etc.

    Its harder to be a theif today, there is much less cash in circulation than there was before. The days of serial purse snatchers making big scores are over and the CAMERA WILL most likely get you.

    Theres other reasons but all in the same vein
    All of this is true - I've given video to officers myself to make sure a dirt bag goes away.

    My only concern is when the police chief gets leaned on by a mayor who wants low crimes stats. This can be achieved a couple ways - honestly through good training and legit police work. Or dishonestly by cooking books and making lesser charges for more serious crimes.

    The former is groovy, the latter is a problem to which I'm sure a solution exists but remains unresolved in many areas.

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