“your neighbors are secretly unwrapping candy, brushing lollipops with poison, and inserting razor blades into Snickers bars!”
No doubt there is too much paranoia and overreaction out there. That said, it can’t be denied that wierdos and sickos seem to be on the increase.
"Seem to be" on the increase and "are" on the increase are two different things.
Fact is, they aren't.
In all reality, up until the age of Obama, crime of all kinds has been dropping.
Almost all crime, particularly violent crime is way down from its’ peak in the Eighties and early Nineties. It is most certainly due to better and more police procedures, stop & frisk, broken windows, community policing measures and most importantly the increased use of mandatory prison sentences and truth in sentencing laws.
80% of all crime is committed by 20% of the population. Of that 20%, 20% of those constitute hard core repeat violent offenders. This 5% of the population is now the ones regularly incarcerated and therefor separated from the population as a whole. That makes us all safer.
If we could rid ourselves of the Illegals, we could reduce crime another 30% at least as they are responsible for at least a third of all crimes presently committed.
It is the safest time ever to be a kid.