Is crime worse than ever? Seems to me like crime rates in the US have dropped over the past decade.
For better or worse, we live in the era of the 24 hour news cycle. Anything bad get looped endlessly until its replaced by something else as violent or lurid or whatever.
The news never has, and never will, run stories like "Meanwhile, 299 million Americans quietly went about their business and nothing unusual happened to any of them".
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