Drew, we have seen evidence of reclassification of crime downward. I don’t trust those statistics at all.
I know the big headline is safer streets... are you really buying that?
I’ve never heard of so many abductions and killings.
There’s a new one on the news every night, but the stats are supposed to be lower than ever. It just doesn’t compute.
That's the 24/7 News effect. Especially if you're watching FNC ("The Missing White Girl network"). 30+ years ago, we had 30 minutes of news twice a day. These stories never made national news unless it was the Lindbergh baby or Frank Sinatra Jr.
Nationwide, there is an overall decline. That doesn’t tell you much about what is going on in smaller areas though. Crime likewise also doesn’t tell you of other threats to your child such as accidental death, drugs, etc. once your kid, nephew, etc. is stuck in an addiction, or is the one that dies in an accident, or gets killed, the stats don’t matter.
I know the big headline is safer streets... are you really buying that?
Yes, I am!
In fact, it's the opposite. The government wants us to be afraid of everything. And it looks like it's working with the results of this poll showing increasing support for laws governing parental supervision.
Think about it. If a kid gets abducted and murdered in New York, it makes the news in California (and everywhere in between). These used to be local stories but now they're national which is why we hear about them all the time.
Amber Alerts... Originally designed to combat the "epidemic" of stranger child abductions. We were told they wouldn't be used for custodial parent issues. Turns out, stranger abductions are very rare. In order to keep the program funded, they had to quietly slip non-custodial parent abductions into the program. My phone beeped so often I disabled the Amber Alert notification. What do I care if some divorced dad extended his visitation past the state-authorized time?
Sex offender databases... There's another joke. Get caught pissing in an alley behind a bar and now you're going to join all those other perverts on the on-line neighborhood profile listings of offenders.
Counting hispanics as "white" in the FBI index of perpetrators makes Americans think murderers and violent criminals are living on every street --when really, most of these "white" violent offenders are named Jose Rodriguez-Lopez, crossed the river last month and are settling scores in the barrios.
It goes on and on. The government wants us to be scared. I'm not going to play along.