Yes and no.

It's interesting to see the debate going on in Seattle regarding crime right now. What I can say is that, while crime rates may not be scary compared to, say, the early 90s, what is different is that in the 90s you had to go to bad areas to experience it. Now the crime comes to you. It is much more widespread in areas 'normal' people frequent. Part of that has to do with the revitalization of downtowns that occurred then(when millennials and gays began cleaning them up?), I think. Back in the 80s and early 90s, you didn't go to downtowns unless you worked there.

There's a now-notorious group of voters born two or three decades before the 80s that largely don't think it's outlandish at all.