Homicide Baseline Reframe

Policy and media should anchor crime debates in long‑run and cross‑national homicide baselines rather than short political windows. Using a century‑scale time series and OECD comparators reduces misinterpretation of temporary spikes and prevents policy overreactions driven by narrow snapshots. — Reframing crime around robust historical and international baselines would improve allocation of policing, prevention, and public‑health resources and reduce politicized, reactive policymaking.