05-29-2010, 06:10 PM
Quoting Ramd'd
"I would like to see some current data that supports the "no more crimes today... than yesteryear" theory."
That's pretty easy to find online. Violent crime in the US has decreased dramatically since the 1970's, when most of us grew up. So we were raised to fear the inner cities, which in many cases were ground zero for the crack epidemic and other social conditions that police didn't know how to handle. Things have changed, but I think many of us are stuck in that mentality.
Also, were missing kids are concerned, the whole concept of "family abductions" exploded in the divorce epidemic and custody wars era, and that accounts for the vast majority of missing kids. Stranger abduction, especially abduction that leads to murder, is extremely rare, though even one case is too many, of course.
Here's some recent FBI stats on the decline, just for the past few years. Again, you can find info on this online.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/05/us-...ar-fbi.php
We and our children live in a relatively safe society, we just don't know it.
"I would like to see some current data that supports the "no more crimes today... than yesteryear" theory."
That's pretty easy to find online. Violent crime in the US has decreased dramatically since the 1970's, when most of us grew up. So we were raised to fear the inner cities, which in many cases were ground zero for the crack epidemic and other social conditions that police didn't know how to handle. Things have changed, but I think many of us are stuck in that mentality.
Also, were missing kids are concerned, the whole concept of "family abductions" exploded in the divorce epidemic and custody wars era, and that accounts for the vast majority of missing kids. Stranger abduction, especially abduction that leads to murder, is extremely rare, though even one case is too many, of course.
Here's some recent FBI stats on the decline, just for the past few years. Again, you can find info on this online.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/05/us-...ar-fbi.php
We and our children live in a relatively safe society, we just don't know it.