I've had American colleagues ask me about the London crime wave. They seem to have some sort of alternative news source that doesn't tell them murders have halved from the high point around the millennium.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/london-murder-rate-dr...

Then they say it's about knife crime. Where the UK also does better than the US.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/05/trump-s-knife-crime-clai...