I've lived in major american cities across the country for my entire life 

during that time period, crime has steadily declined. on the data side there isn't really disagreement about that. 

what explains the widespread sentiment that crime is rising? why do so many people believe that cities, in general, are overrun by crime and underpoliced? 

most interesting to me is that people across regions, demographics, political affiliation are extremely concerned about U.S. (national) crime & routinely think its worse than the year before. 

but those same respondents, again across the board, are far less worried about crime's seriousness in their local area. they still think its worse than before. 

it's almost accepted wisdom at this point. what explains the gap in data & sentiment? and perceptions of local crime (not bad but more than before) vs. national crime (bad & getting worse!)

visible ambient chaos in the streets due to homeless epidemic

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This tracks in a big way for many folks in my opinion.

a related theory (no idea if backed by data): crime used the isolated to ghettos but now it’s moved into the high socioeconomic areas, or more accurately the higher socioeconomic areas have moved into it

for the Twitter class crime has gotten worse