As everybody knows, the news media has a tendancy to spend the most time talking about violent crimes, because that gains the most viewers. But it also has the effect of skewing viewer perspective about the amount of crime going on in their city. By this I mean that they hear only about crime happening around them and assume that the amount of crime is going up. But people used to only have access to the news via the papers or on TV, which necessarily limited the amount of time they had to spend reading the news. But now that there is the internet, and most news sources have gone digital, news and current events are available at literally any time of the day. And since people spend much more time on the internet than they did reading or watching TV, their perception of how much crime is going on is shooting up rapidly because they are exposed to it for longer periods of the day. But is this perception true? Is there more crime than before? Or is the news media skewing our perception to make us think there is more than there actually is?