{"id":1604,"date":"2024-07-30T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T13:59:50","slug":"reality-check-crime-rates-are-actually-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/reality-check-crime-rates-are-actually-declining\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check: Crime Rates are Actually Declining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the great majority of Americans think crime is increasing across the nation, it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 Actually, the exact opposite is true: crime rates are plummeting almost everywhere.\u00a0 So what causes the wide discrepancy between perception and truth? Here are three theories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do Americans always think crime is going up?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/356269\/falling-crime-trends-public-perception-voter-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/356269\/falling-crime-trends-public-perception-voter-concerns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781479815753\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the great majority of Americans think crime is increasing across the nation, it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 Actually, the exact opposite is true: crime rates are plummeting almost everywhere.\u00a0 So what causes the wide discrepancy between perception and truth? Here are three theories. Why do Americans always think crime is going up? https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/356269\/falling-crime-trends-public-perception-voter-concerns Related Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,41,40,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-news","category-politics","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}