Television portrays roughly two-thirds of crimes as violent though only ten percent are

Evidence

The world of television is heavily populated with villainous and violent characters. In reality, only about 10% of crimes are violent, whereas about 66% of the crimes committed on television are violent ones (Gerbner, 1972b). This distorted portrayal of crime can breed frightful public images. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 784

Categorization

• SHARE: Concrete 10%-vs-66% datum useful for the reader’s essays on media-distorted threat perception.
• CANDY: Nearly seven times more crimes on TV are violent than in reality — a punchy conversational stat.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 784