Crime is seemingly rampant in America.
We're inundated with countless dings from applications on our phones. With apps like Nextdoor and Citizen, people are able to report crime more than ever before, but does that make the crime trends accurate?
"There was no crime wave, and the continued assertion that there was drives me crazy," AH Analytics co-founder and crime expert Jeff Asher said on the latest episode of "Connect the Dots."
Murder rates, however, do appear to be going up, according to Jeff Pfaff, a professor of law at Fordham University.
In the episode, we'll hear from these two crime experts, who shed light on the types of crime we've been grappling with and whether we can expect this as a decade-defining trend. We'll also turn to Chicago, where one advocacy group breaks down what needs to be done in order to curb gun violence.
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