{"podcast":{"title":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","slug":"astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483","podcast_index_feed_id":226483,"rss_url":"https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/2/d/4/12d4a6af46ce5199/SSC-Icon-large.png","author":"Jeremiah Prophet","episode_count":1170,"summary":"The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's just me reading Scott Alexander's blog posts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T22:20:14.870262+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483"},"episode":{"title":"Record Low Crime Rates Are Real, Not Just Reporting Bias Or Improved Medical Care","slug":"record-low-crime-rates-are-real-not-just-reporting-bias-or-improved-medical-care","published_at":"2026-03-14T07:46:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483/record-low-crime-rates-are-real-not-just-reporting-bias-or-improved-medical-care","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483","url":"https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/record-low-crime-rates-are-real-not-just-reporting-bias-or-improved-medical-care","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sscpodcast/Record_Low_Crime_Rates_Are_Real_Not_Just_Reporting_Bias_Or_Improved_Medical_Care.mp3?dest-id=586545","summary":"Last year, the US may have recorded the lowest murder rate in its 250 year history. Other crimes have poorer historical data, but are at least at ~50 year lows. This post will do two things: Establish that our best data show crime rates are historically low Argue that this is a real effect, not just reporting bias (people report fewer crimes to police) or an artifact of better medical care (victims are more likely to survive, so murders get downgraded to assaults) https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/record-low-crime-rates-are-real-not","meta_description":"Last year, the US may have recorded the lowest murder rate in its 250 year history. Other crimes have poorer historical data, but are at least at ~50 year…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":982,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483/episodes/record-low-crime-rates-are-real-not-just-reporting-bias-or-improved-medical-care/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483/record-low-crime-rates-are-real-not-just-reporting-bias-or-improved-medical-care.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}