I disagree we are just noticing it due to cell phone cameras and they are picking on more of the middle class.
Nearly everybody has a phone with audio and visual recording. They can’t stop all the recordings. They need uploading in real time so the evidence can not be erased.
The world has always been totally corrupt. This romantic notion of the past is pure fantasy and shows a basic ignorance of history.
Pigs have always had issues with corruption and abuse. It only seems more common thanks to cameras, 24 hour news, and the fact that we are all digitally connected. The old media no longer has control over what gets out and what stories are passed along. Now we have a chance at accountability where before things were swept under the rug.
Take Chicago as an example. The place has been a corrupt cesspool since the 1890’s where the Mayor was gunned down on his doorstep right before the Worlds Fair. H.H. Holmes was able to operate a murder hotel with nobody the wiser. Read “The Great Gatsby” and you will find a time full of disfunction, drug use, excess, and immorality. People simply didnt discuss such things and people preferred to be blissful and ignorant.
For those still not convinced, go read about the Metro Goldwin Hollywood rape case and ask yourself if that could even begin to happen today.