The perception of crime is high not because it's actually high but because of propaganda??? Seriously, if you want to reduce the perception of crime you do what California is doing. You just increase the thresholds for what constitutes crime and then your statics on crime go way down. Simple. Tired of losing the war on drugs, legalize them and crime statics goes down. Tired of prosecuting theft, increase the amount that it takes to make it theft and crime statics go down. Now if we could only find a way to hide all those victims of this non-existent crime. Sounds like a job for propaganda. Tell all the victims of this non-existent crime that the crime that just happened was all in their head...