{"id":186023,"date":"2024-08-29T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=short-read&p=186023"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:45:19","slug":"the-link-between-local-news-coverage-and-americans-perceptions-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/08\/29\/the-link-between-local-news-coverage-and-americans-perceptions-of-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"The link between local news coverage and Americans\u2019 perceptions of crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. Knight Foundation is a social investor committed to supporting informed and engaged communities. Learn more ><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

For most of the past three decades, Americans have said crime is rising in the United States, even though official statistics show a dramatic decrease<\/em> in crime during that span<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 23 of 27 Gallup surveys conducted since 1993<\/a>, at least 60% of Americans have said there is more crime in the U.S. than there was the year before. But this perception is at odds with the data: Since 1993, the nation\u2019s violent crime rate has plunged by nearly half, while the property crime rate has fallen even more steeply, according to the FBI. Put another way, Americans were about twice as likely to be the victim of a violent crime in 1993 as in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>