It depends on the time frame. Yes, there is less street crime now than there was in the 19th century. Maybe even less than there was in the 1970s. But it is a r

It depends on the time frame. Yes, there is less street crime now than there was in the 19th century. Maybe even less than there was in the 1970s. But it is a real fact that in many cities there is more street crime now than in the low point in the late 1990s. The number of murders in Philadelphia brought up by the author, for example.