Piling onto this, humans have both recency and frequency biases that, combined with the attention-as-currency news industry, tend to lead to an increase in the

Piling onto this, humans have both recency and frequency biases that, combined with the attention-as-currency news industry, tend to lead to an increase in the perceived danger of violent crime that's entirely disconnected from the actual statistical danger of violent crime. You hear about more crimes, you hear about each crime more often, and your estimate of how much crime there actually is increases.