Cities Grew Safer. Police Budgets Kept Growing.

Emily Owens, professor of criminology, law and society, offers her expertise in a New York Times article. An excerpt:

The reality is that most Americans don’t believe that crime declined at all. In surveys, they have repeatedly told pollsters that they think crime in America has gone up.

“People always think crime is a problem, and that it’s a growing problem,” said Emily Owens, an economist who studies crime at the University of California, Irvine.

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