The Message Isn't Getting Through...

...because local experienced reality keeps interfering:

The public overestimate how many minority ethnic people are killers, as well as how many foreign national offenders there are, a new study has found.

Well, well, well.... 

The research from King’s College London tested knowledge and perceptions of crime at a time when radical right parties are trying to link offending to ethnicity and nationality to gain votes. YouGov’s survey of 1,800 people in England and Wales found that people thought 55% of convicted killers were from an ethnic minority, when the real percentage is 35%. They also thought just 45% of homicides were committed by white people, when the real figure is 64%.

And this is treated as a great revelation instead of asking 'then if we already have murderers and rapists in the population, why would we want to import more?' 

The academics who conducted the survey said feelings about levels of crime and who was to blame were a reflection of people’s emotions, rather than the facts.

Academics who, I suspect, don't - and wouldn't - live in the areas blighted by diversity. 

Prof Bobby Duffy, of King’s College, said: “There are two buckets of explanations for our misperceptions: how we think and what we’re told. 

“On the former, it’s vital to recognise that misperceptions are partly driven by what we’re worried about. Cause and effect run in both directions, where we inflate the scale of an issue if it’s something we’re concerned about. 

And we are rightly concerned about the importation of hordes of Third Worlders who we know nothing about.

“Reform supporters’ higher concern about immigration and diversity … will mean they’re more likely to give attention and weight to things they see that fit with that view, including crimes being committed by those groups. 

“On what we’re told, they’re also more likely to be seeing media, social media and political communications that emphasise those examples.”

Ah, yes, just as 'global warming' is behind every spell of bad weather, or even good weather, so social media is the bogeyman lurking behind the curtain in every area the Left wishes us to forget about.

Duffy also highlighted that respondents’ views coincided more with people their own age rather than their own ethnicity. “For example, gen Z puts the white share of homicide convictions at 58%, whereas baby boomers put it at 35%. But white and non-white respondents give almost identical answers,” he said.

Heh! Hardly surprising when they are the victims of crime as often as not. 

Duffy said: “Our misperceptions are more of a general emotional reaction than careful study of the facts – we’re sending messages about what’s worrying us.”

Ineed we are - so start listening! Because if you don't, then as the song goes 'There maybe trouble ahead...'