Stats Don’t Back Up Republicans’ Crime-Wave Rhetoric
Stats Don’t Back Up Republicans’ Crime-Wave Rhetoric
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Stats Don’t Back Up Republicans’ Crime-Wave Rhetoric
Turns out violent crime was down in 2022, and it’s a lot lower than it was in earlier decades.
All in all, GOP fearmongering about crime parallels the party’s inflation alarms based on selective and outdated numbers. It can be effective, unfortunately; during 2022, Gallup found that 78 percent of Americans thought crime was higher nationally than in 2021. Turns out that just wasn’t the case.