Judd Legum1. The US murder rate is down an 12% year-to-date, based on 90 cities that have released data.
If the trend holds it will be the single largest annual decline in the murder rate ever recorded.
And yet, you probably haven't heard anything about it.
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BlueDot🇺🇦One night during the Clinton administration, I was driving home from work and heard over NPR that serious crime had dropped 30% from the previous year. Big news.
I got home just in time to catch the beginning of local TV news. So I turned on the TV and flipped between the three local stations' evening news programs to see if they covered this huge story.
For the first 15 minutes, all I saw on all three stations was coverage of local crime.
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧Newsies themselves have for years said it best: “If it bleeds, it leads.”
It’s all about eyeballs, emotion and money; what it’s not about is thinking.