The interesting thing about this topic, is what a bell-weather road marker it is. We are told crime stats are falling all over. None the less, you can’t convince me our streets are safer than they used to be.
How many people think our streets are safer? How come folks think it’s abuse to day, when kids used to be able to play dawn to dusk outside in safety.
That’s the question we should be asking, and the answer is what we should truly be confronting head on.
People aren’t happy about clamping down on their kid’s freedoms. They would like to see those kids grow up without being abducted, molested or raped. They would like to see them live.
Those are the issues I would like to see confronted.
How do we return safety to our neighborhoods? How do we get the sick people off our streets and out of our neighborhoods?
Well, here’s the deal: in terms of becoming a crime victim, a child is incredibly safe. In terms of being hit by a car, drowning oneself (often accidentally in a pool), or other accidental kinds of death are extremely risky for unsupervised children. My best word on this matter is that focusing solely on crime is missing the real threat: that the threat of accidental death is underrated. When I see how much supervision is going on for a lot of things with kids, the aspect and threat of serious accidents, and not neccessarily murder or kidnapping, really is there.