See, they think that pickpocketing isn’t an issue in the US because they have far more pressing issues.
Over here we talk about pickpocketing, because it’s pretty much the worst crime anyone ever encounters in their real life. You probably wouldn’t care much about that if there’s multiple school shootings a day and people can just stage insurrections and nobody cares.
Crime perception is derived mostly via news reports. Most people are affected by crime maybe 1-2 times in their lives (of course, this number differs greatly with some people being affected by crime all the time, but the median is very low).
That means, your perception what kinds of crimes are how prevalent is mostly shaped by media.
Media has a very limited bandwidth, so of course only the most sensationalist kinds of crimes are reported on. If there’s a school shooting almost every day with 31000 victims in total per year, the likelihood of something as petty as pickpocketing making the news is very low.
See, they think that pickpocketing isn’t an issue in the US because they have far more pressing issues.
Over here we talk about pickpocketing, because it’s pretty much the worst crime anyone ever encounters in their real life. You probably wouldn’t care much about that if there’s multiple school shootings a day and people can just stage insurrections and nobody cares.
Ask the women about that take
Crime perception is derived mostly via news reports. Most people are affected by crime maybe 1-2 times in their lives (of course, this number differs greatly with some people being affected by crime all the time, but the median is very low).
That means, your perception what kinds of crimes are how prevalent is mostly shaped by media.
Media has a very limited bandwidth, so of course only the most sensationalist kinds of crimes are reported on. If there’s a school shooting almost every day with 31000 victims in total per year, the likelihood of something as petty as pickpocketing making the news is very low.