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Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken?
This election cycle showed that our evaluations of external reality are increasingly partisan. Can the media bridge the gap?
Rather than wait for the FBI’s annual release of year-old (or older) data, the index gathers close-to-real-time numbers — the lag’s about a month and a half — from hundreds of individual police agencies across the country and pulls them into a set of common trend lines. How healthy do you think that feedback loop is, between reality and perception, in terms of how people understand the level of crime and make political judgments about it? People don’t spend a lot of time asking, “Is this the right level of murders to have?” It’s “Is the number going up or going down?” It’s as if, in political polling, the emphasis was only on which candidate had the momentum, not which one was actually leading.
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