Crime of Reporting Crime

 The Crime of Reporting Crime

Recently major media platforms continued to engage in exaggerated reporting of crime in America, this is a deliberate template of media platforms in America.

Curated agenda driven journalism with regards to reporting crime in America is contaminated with flawed data and underdeveloped analysis. The racial and political impacts and outcomes of this destructive journalism has destroyed the lives of millions of Americans and their communities.

The impact of this curated media bias and flawed analysis has been destructive not only for people the media targets with exaggerated reporting and analysis of crime, but it has significant social and economic consequences for every aspect and segment of America from police reforms to economic development of struggling communities in America.

Entire communities have been stained by the labels coined by media platforms, capital investments and infrastructure improvements are ignored by business when the narratives of crime are based in false equations and data analysis.

There has never been an objective documented crime wave in America nor an increase in any measurable metric that proves that citizens of America are in fear of daily threats and danger as a result of criminal acts.

The FBI Crime Index is based upon survey data by selected venues in America. Many major cities in America don’t report their crime data to the FBI as a result much of this data is not reliable nor reflective of any real time crime narratives in America.

Homicides are not automatically murders but the public at large has been programmed by both the media and law enforcement agencies to believe every homicide is of a criminal origin.

Stranger Danger is extremely rare in America, even in urban venues, most victims of violent crimes know their assailants from crimes of assaults to rape and homicides. One’s zip code has little to do with being a victim of a capital crimes. Crimes of passion aren’t influenced by a zip code.

Consider NYC with a population of over 8 million people last year there were 485 documented murders last year in NYC. It is extremely rare that murder happens in NYC of course the template of media platforms is to report and project murder as an epidemic in America especially in urban and poor communities 

Rather than report the overwhelming majority of millions of Americans that not only don’t commit murder and also where the overwhelming majority don’t commit crimes. Media platforms in America engage in the polar opposite. Reasoned journalistic standards on the reporting and analysis of crime in America don’t exist. 

Rather than develop and implement journalistic metrics that will enhance and give credibility to the reporting of crime, readers and the public are bludgeoned with exaggerated incidents of crimes especially murders which as I previously noted are not at any epidemic rate in America.

There has never been a ‘crime wave’ in America nor any documented increase in crime by any objective measurable metric. Fact remains majority of Americans are not in fear of daily criminal threats. Reality does not bite in this regard especially with regards to being a victim of a crime in America 

The collateral damage of this curated journalism and media reporting is extremely dangerous especially when the specter of racism continues to exist in the politics of policing in America. Our politicians leverage these false narratives promoted in the media reporting on crime 

The Crime of Reporting Crime is a daily pathological operation of journalism wherein tragically American is a victim of this crime 

Americans deserve better from our media platforms