The curious thing is that I've lived in two places now where I see two competing takes: crime is lower than it ever has been, and crime is much more visible to the average person. It always forks into these kinds of discussions where folks roll out stats that don't match people's testimony and there's some mention that all media is conservative and thrives on this kind of news.

I'm not really ready to settle for either of those takes. They both seem wrong. Is there anything else that could create both of these outcomes?