I think you need to change your cheese from bull to real. I live in small town USA and the county sheriff’s report as well as the larger town’s police report that go into detail on the internet tells the same story. A dramatic increase in violence, physical altercations and spousal/lover abuse, theft, meth not to mention the speeding tickets which usually accompany no insurance and/or no license. Times have changed in my neck of the woods.
PS. . .I forgot to mention the murder in the next town to the east in another county which as it has been reported had three accomplices. Motorcyles, fourwheelers, etc. are zooming at alarming speeds on the highway and in the country and elementary school aged kids are riding all over the place in town in their folks golf carts and side by sides.