Julie Mertus looked at just that issue in her
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War - from 1981 through 1987 the crime rate in Kosovo was the lowest of any of Yugoslavia's Republics.
During this time, 5 interethnic murders, with a breakdown of 2 Serbs and 3 Kosovar Albanian victims.
It wasn't a place where people were walking around arm in arm singing "It's a small world", but it sure as hell wasn't what people are making it out to be as they try to justify what happened there under Milosevic.
What you are trying to say is that it was just a myth or a fantasy that the Serbs asked for our help in controlling the problem with the Albanians? That we turned them down, but that was just a myth also? Maybe we should have had some better intelligence before we rushed into war. Oh, well, at least we had France on our side then.