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Crime is actually at its lowest point in 40 years, but you wouldn't know it looking at the constant fearmongering by legacy media and conservative politicians alike.

>>thranc+(OP)
As a person old enough to remember the War on Drugs, I can agree that people who think things are worse now must have spent the late '80s/early '90s sheltering in libraries or something.

>>runako+s5
It was also before the "if it bleeds, it leads" explosion of crime reporting starting in the 90s.