An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year. An overwhelming majority of Americans are wrong.
On Tuesday, August 5, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released its comprehensive report on crime in the United States for 2024. As crime data expert Jeff Asher noted, not only did the report reveal that overall crime was down substantially in 2024, but crime "fell in 2024 across every category and population group." Specifically, it "was down in all seven categories of crime across all 10 population groups that the FBI measures."
Moreover, the new FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s. Continue here....
-- Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby
Largely a belief issue and I think we all know why:
At some point, the overwhelming evidence of what Trump is trying to do is at odds with the general purposes of government (debate can still be made, of course, about the extent of those purposes).
Why do we have government anyway and how has it evolved? A refresher on some of the evolution / role of government might be of use…here.
