As the mother of a murdered child, I don’t read that kind of stuff, nor watch it on TV, it is to upsetting.
BTW I live in Memphis the crime capitol of the state of TN. We have daily shootings or killings, violence is rampant here as the city, county and state do very little to combat crime. Criminals serve on average on 30% of their sentences. Takes 2 years to get through the plea bargain phase...or trial. And they count that time in jail awaiting trial/plea as time served.
I spent 2 years going to court nearly once every month only to have things postponed for another month. Then when they finally did a bad plea deal with out my input he only got a lousy 20 years. First parole hearing was 10 months later, 5 more after that over a 14.5 year time span, then they let him loose as he’d MAXED out ‘his good behavior’ time.
I don’t have to read it I live it.
I have saved that story because it describes the demographic/geographic changes in violent crime rates in Memphis after the HUD Section 8 housing voucher program. The fact that the story was in the quite liberal Atlantic Monthly made it even more compelling (though, predictably, the author derives all the wrong conclusions).
I became aware of the impact of the Section 8 housing voucher program when I, as a young father, moved my family into an apartment complex that accepted such payments. I witnessed an alarming level of criminal behavior, along with much more of the simply unneighborly kind.
These apartments had, just years before, been full of young professionals and young families.
The demographic changes that occurred in the early 90's were stark, and in my opinion, intentional.