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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:51PM (1 child)
Poor fool - you've not heard of West Memphis, North Little Rock, and Fort Smith? Those are our major crime centers. Texarkana and Little Rock both figure in, but those first three are the biggies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @08:10PM
I was only considering concentrations of white-on-white crimes. Most of the crimes whites are victim of are perpetrated by other whites, and whites commit the majority of violent crimes in Arkansas, as in the United States at largo, Mar a Lago.