Maggie Koerth and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux of FiveThirtyEight –
Will you get robbed this year? How would you rate your chances?
In 2019, according to a survey conducted by Gallup, about 64 percent of Americans believed that there was more crime in the U.S. than there was a year ago. It’s a belief we’ve consistently held for decades now, but as you can see in the chart below, we’ve been, just as consistently, very wrong.
Yet fear makes everyone less safe.
