The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between trust in the police and exposure to crime against an individual as a measure of crime at a municipal level. Attempts to establishing a direction of causality between trust and crime levels was done. A secondary analysis of the material from The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention and The Swedish Crime Survey from 2021 constituted the data that was used. The research method used was multiple regression analysis and panel regression for the question of causality. The results showed that a statistically significant relationship between the variables existed. The panel regression analysis showed that it was not possible to establish a direction of causality.