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Although public concern about crime seems to have receded somewhat in recent years, it still ranks fairly highly among the things that Americans care most about. For example, over most of the past decade and a half, a significant majority of Americans, when asked whether crime rates in the U.S. had increased or decreased over […]http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/images/legacy/anyc00014.gif