Most Americans are wrong about crime

In 2020 and 2021, amid a pandemic that wreaked general havoc on the social fabric of the United States, violent crime rose. Today, most Americans believe that crime in the US has come roaring back — maybe even to the levels of the 1980s and ’90s.But a look at the data tells a very different story. Nevertheless, the feeling that our cities are less safe is at least partly coming from…