Thanks to some films and TV shows, and certain types of music, many people still regard big cities in the USA as violent and crime-filled. However, recent reports show that they’re ____ near as dangerous as some people believe. Statistics for violent crime are nothing ____ as bad as they were in the 1990s; the chance of being robbed or murdered is much lower ____ in the 1990s when those crimes were far ____ common than they are today. There are also slightly ____ property crimes than forty years ago, with a drop of 2.8% being reported by some sources. Many inner-city areas once considered ‘no-go’ zones are ____ more pleasant than they used to be, and cities generally are just as safe ____ anywhere else in the world. The problem, of course, is that the more the media focuses on the few serious crimes, ____ more afraid people become.

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