Crime As Proxy For Disorder

<p>The problem: people hate crime and think it's going up. But actually, crime <a href= "https://blog.outlandish.claims/p/higher-crime-areas-are-safer">barely affects most people</a> and is <a href= "https://readscottalexander.com/posts/acx-record-low-crime-rates-are-real-not"> historically low</a>. So what's going on?</p> <p> </p> <p>In our discussion yesterday, many commenters proposed that the discussion about "crime" was really about disorder.</p> <p>Disorder takes many forms, but its symptoms include litter, graffiti, shoplifting, tent cities, weird homeless people wandering about muttering to themselves, and people walking around with giant boom boxes shamelessly playing music …