https://theconversation.com/crime-is-falling-but-the-public-doesnt-feel-safer-study-finds-291197. "More than eight in ten of the #British #public really do believe that #crime has gone up in the past few years. But as a #study I was recently involved in shows, this sense of increasing #lawlessness is based on very faulty #perceptions of trends in actual crime rates." See: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/wrongful-convictions-misperceptions-of-crime.pdf.