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.None of the numbers from the CDC are clear on that point. The fact is that the country is safer now than it was 30 years ago because violent crime has decreased steadily over the last 30 years. The FBI maintains statistics that prove this. The Atlantic (a monthly magazine that is about as far left as left gets) even used the term "The Great Crime Decline" to describe it. The difference is nearly instantaneous (and often woefully inaccurate) reporting of events over the Internet. We are simply made more aware of violent encounters today than we were 30 years ago, so our collective perception is that crime is increasing and it isn't.
The folks who study this stuff (the most recent "pause" in the dropping crime rate) blame it on the pandemic and say that this will pass as the pandemic passes. There were a whole lot of people who were terrified that if they ventured outside that they would walk into a cloud of Covid-19 like it was the same as Sarin gas. When you start believing that you may be dead next week no matter what you do, it can mess with your head. Because social life on the whole was so radically destabilized, it resulted in a huge surge of violence that was temporary. As the pandemic subsides, so will the violence.
The Atlantic is left of center for sure in the bias sentiment category …. but I would place it within 1 standard deviation of the mean (mean which is not right or left). I don’t believe that it is an extreme left publication. Major publications in general all have a Left of Center “Sentiment”.
Btw …. Anne Applebaum recently joined as a staff writer in 2020 …. and she can be as Hawkish as is hawkishly possible in some of her position pieces.
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