Trends In Crime Statistics

Certain crimes are more prevalent than others, depending on the area. Many factors such as the population, ethnicity, and inequality between a group of individuals may contribute to the conflict perspective on crime rates. Crime rate can either increase or decrease on the scale. Therefore, even the number of crimes which are reported by the media, do not show competency and thus deemed inaccurate. According to Highfield (2014) "Those numbers, however, are not entirely accurate" (par. 2). Several factors such as family conditions, criminogenic environment and the collapse of a community may greatly impact and discredit the common hypothesis of the individuals' apparatus of the reduction of crime rate.
A tremendous amount of crimes does not make it to the news nor reported whether by civilians or government agents. According to BJS (2012) "More than half of the nation's violent crimes, or nearly 3.4 million violent victimizations per year, went unreported to the police between 2006 and 2010" (par. 1). Crime rates tend to expand on specific types of criminal behavior that might be of interest to the broadcasting public. Although there seems to be a decline in crime rate whenever a politician is running for office, however, the
According to Reichel (2013) "In an attempt to reduce the data loss that occurs when relying on police reports of crime, individual countries are making greater use of victimization surveys" (p. 31). The heuristic fact is that only a fraction of crimes are reported whether by the victims or law enforcement professionals. Low crime does not reflect patterns in crime or at risks of victimization and are of little or no use to the public in determining crime