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Comment by trashb

You may want to check your numbers and remember there is a huge negativity bias on crime.

It seems the sense of safety is often different from the actual numbers especially when stereotypes are involved as shown in parent comment regarding to e-scooters. To such an extent that there is the phenomenon called the crime decline paradox.

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-perceptions-of-crime-at-od...

parent trashb 1 month ago

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