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Chapter 2-Assignment 3
Q View the following 2 videos. By most measures crime is down on average in the United States, but why do you think most Americans think crime is actually up. In no more than 200 words provide your answer.
Video 1
I believe most Americans think that crime is actually going up instead of down because they see reports of violent crimes on their media outlets. I believe media outlets have the most impact on people believing crime rates are up because we see videos of a robbery in a big city and are told that this isn't a new occurrence or the first one "this week." One main report in news and media outlets, that I see, is the rise in gun violence. This may correlate to people thinking that crime is up as a whole. When a new shooting is in the news, it affects the way people think about crime.
