Virginia abolished the death penalty in 2021 and welcomed a new governor in 2022. Meanwhile, widespread media reports that the crime rate goes up in 2022 compared to last year and before. The new Republican governor seriously claimed his Democrat predecessor to have made Virginia dangerous till today. In this article, whether it is a fact or a partisan battle that constructs a narrative will be investigated. Also, the five main topics of the news in the last year and a half will be summarized through the adoption of tools like Python and LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation). The review of the theories that explained the effects of media, especially on political policies, and Foucault’s theories on human subjection and involvement in political life, explained the significance of the research. This paper concludes that “Virginia is becoming more dangerous” tends to be a narrative constructed through media by politicians to operate power. People cannot avoid being involved in the media, which has great effects on them in modern times. The narrative surrounding the Virginia crime rate is an example of it. Media runs through the process of “subjectivation” but can only make people be trapped in “the fine meshes of the web of power”.