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Maybe Crime's Not Rising, But If Voters Think It Is ...
A perception of disorder could influence the election.
Beware.
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At the Republican Convention in July, Donald Trump intoned that “Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement.” The media rushed to state, equally firmly, that he was wrong. And then this week brought the announcement that violent crime in the U.S. had indeed risen significantly last year, by almost 4 percent. Murder was up even more.1474999790952
Was Trump right?