It’s only really begun to sink in how much our perception of violent crime and its dynamics are, for most people, 100% a media creation. Not just the way the news and documentaries create these false narratives due to what they focus on (and how they report it), but due to fiction, too. (American notions about murder have more to do with murder mysteries than anything based on reality.)
It’s incredibly dangerous, as it stops us from having any reasonable policy discussions about say, gun control, because the discussion is entirely premised on fictional notions of how murder and violence works.
