[pants2]

Also two things can be true at the same time:

1. The neighborhood is so bad you'll be murdered for certain if you walk alone at night.

2. Murder rates are at record lows.

This just means hardly anyone's walking alone at night - but "crime rates are down".

[quantummagic]

Good point. It's just frustrating how many people spout the "statistics", and are happy to avoid such nuance in order to take solace in a comfortable narrative.