In the 80's you had the 10 pm news and the newspaper. Today you have 24/7 access to the news everywhere. Are things more dangerous now or just more access to know what is happening? Or both?
BothGhostrider said:
In the 80's you had the 10 pm news and the newspaper. Today you have 24/7 access to the news everywhere. Are things more dangerous now or just more access to know what is happening? Or both?
That's good to know. It seems like we (I) are always saying, "when I was a kid I would ride bikes all over. Now I wouldn't let my kids do that without a parent."Redbrickbear said:
Its the Media.
Crime has been going down in the USA for 25 years.
The only increase has been in things like mass shooting events.
But in general the mass crime waves in the USA were decades ago.
"Crime rates have varied over time, with a sharp rise after 1900 and reaching a broad bulging peak between the 1970s and early 1990s. After 1992, crime rates began to fall year by year and have since declined significantly."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/what-caused-the-crime-decline/477408/
There has been a spike in crime and murder since the summer of BLM/Floyd back in 2020...but it has mostly been because of a general police pull back in certain cities.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/
That is the power of the Media.Ghostrider said:That's good to know. It seems like we (I) are always saying, "when I was a kid I would ride bikes all over. Now I wouldn't let my kids do that without a parent."Redbrickbear said:
Its the Media.
Crime has been going down in the USA for 25 years.
The only increase has been in things like mass shooting events.
But in general the mass crime waves in the USA were decades ago.
"Crime rates have varied over time, with a sharp rise after 1900 and reaching a broad bulging peak between the 1970s and early 1990s. After 1992, crime rates began to fall year by year and have since declined significantly."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/what-caused-the-crime-decline/477408/
There has been a spike in crime and murder since the summer of BLM/Floyd back in 2020...but it has mostly been because of a general police pull back in certain cities.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/