Saturday, August 30, 2025

Changing the Crime Narrative

This is for those who most  stop believing  the dangerous perception about Crime is epidemic in America 


‘ Unfortunately so many Americans have purchased the false narrative that Crime in our nation is rampant everywhere in America and no one or venue is safe from crime.


Both major political parties and far too many leaders in both the public and private spheres of America have also accepted and bought into this false and inaccurate narrative about crime in our nation


Facts and coupled with reality is the way forward out of this destructive rabbit hole of crime narratives in our society .


To defeat and end this destructive state of perception about crime is to articulate and simply paint big picture stories and context about crime and its myths of being ever present in our society 


Example:Context not crime statistics and misleading ratios and per capita analysis is more accurate 


Example : The overwhelming majority of all Americans are not criminals nor involved in crimes


Example : Homicides are extremely rare and most victims of homicide know their killers 


This reality that the absence of crime is more salient and real than crime and victims of crime is the truth about Crime in America ‘


Greg Thrasher 

Director 

Plane Ideas

Alternative Think Tank

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