Violent Crime Is Down. Here’s Why More People Feel Victimized.

Crime has been generating what look like contradictory headlines.

In October, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual report showed violent crime in 2022 fell to its relatively low, prepandemic level. Yet in November, Gallup reported that a record-high 63% of U.S. adults said the “crime situation in the U.S. is extremely or very serious.”