How much does universal surveillance have to do with this? I think a lot, we can't get away with shit anymore.

We've replaced good news with kitty clips. We need extremes of everything to be satisfied. I have learned to live happily off the small achievements and happy moments, those are the true mood elevators.

1980s violent crime: down 10X

2010s corporate crime: up 100X

They made white collar crime legal and locked up everyone else.

Good News-Before trump thought about politics.

Begs the question why we need a 10 billion dollar wall. Allocate more money to homeless situation and crime will decline even further.

The states has the largest prison population in the world. more than the authoritarian regimes of russia and china combined. 70 % of inmates are visible minorities but only make up 12 % of population.32 million people have been in ,or are in , prison. a black male has a 50% chance of being incarcerated. wake up america you look bad to me. maybe time to do some house cleaning. in 79 there were 200k prisoners now there are 2 million !!

But wait.... this shallow article tries to define VIOLENT crime as the crime that should concern us. And indeed it's crime and does concern us, but we're looking at the wrong place for crime. Crime has merely shifted from petty violent crime to the much larger online/computer/cyber crime. And It's huge, HUGE, HUGE! Look at online dating scammers taking everything they have from older folks (not your purse, but your lifetime assets); identity crime racking-up endless thefts from a person for years; mortgage crimes making home title-thefts while you sleep; white-collar crime skimming millions from institutions; credit card number thefts.... unlimited! The list is endless and benefits to the thieves, working from their laptops just like respectable people, limitless. No, crime is NOT on the decline.... it's increasing exponentially. And avoiding dark alleys will no longer keep you safe.

Always , positive news does not sell.