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posted by martyb on Saturday August 08 2020, @11:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the is-crime-data-report-trustworthy? dept.

I imagine most people here already know the stats, it's nothing new, but I found it interesting to review.

Many Americans Are Convinced Crime Is Rising In The U.S. They're Wrong:

"People estimated their risks for a whole host of bad-news life events — robbery, burglary, job loss and losing their health insurance. But the survey didn't just ask respondents to rate their chances: It also asked whether those things had actually happened to them in the last year.

And that combination of questions revealed something important about American fear: We are terrible at estimating our risk of crime — much worse than we are at guessing the danger of other bad things. Across that decade, respondents put their chance of being robbed in the coming year at about 15 percent. Looking back, the actual rate of robbery was 1.2 percent. In contrast, when asked to rate their risk of upcoming job loss, people guessed it was about 14.5 percent — much closer to the actual job loss rate of 12.9 percent."

[...] "In 2019, according to a survey conducted by Gallup, about 64 percent of Americans believed that there was more crime in the U.S. than there was a year ago. It's a belief we've consistently held for decades now, but as you can see in the chart below, we've been, just as consistently, very wrong."

Like I said, more of the same, but might be worth a discussion.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 08 2020, @01:46PM (5 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 08 2020, @01:46PM (#1033437) Journal

    You're already being robbed by Trump's Federal Reserves.

    You're half right. The Fed belongs to no one. They are the Deep State (or the "1%" or "Illuminati," if you prefer). They are the real villain in all our stories. Most politicians are their creatures. For whatever else Trump is, he is not their creature because he does not need them.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:07PM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:07PM (#1033530) Journal

    For whatever else Trump is, he is not their creature because he does not need them.

    Well, yeah, he's living off straight up mob money. His whole demeanor and deference to horrible peole indicates he is deep debt.

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    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 08 2020, @09:31PM (1 child)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 08 2020, @09:31PM (#1033646) Journal

      Well, yeah, he's living off straight up mob money. His whole demeanor and deference to horrible peole indicates he is deep debt.

      I heard he feasts off pies made with meat from the children of Central American immigrants. Also, he sacrifices kittens every full moon in a blood orgy held in the basement of the Whitehouse. He is practically Satan. But also Hitler.

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      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 08 2020, @09:53PM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday August 08 2020, @09:53PM (#1033655) Journal

        Two treats in one, babe, the perfect package for the 63 million Americans who love him. Hope they got their money's worth

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:25PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:25PM (#1033541)

    Hahahahha you're not wrong, just a moron ;)

    Lololol trump skull fucked your brains out?

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 08 2020, @09:32PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 08 2020, @09:32PM (#1033647) Journal

      Hahahahhaha you're not wrong, just a moron ;)

      Lololol trump skull fucked your brains out?

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