I was glad to read your post - you get it.
The effects of media programs designed to induce panic emphasize the mayhem for a couple of reasons:
Mayhem sells soap
...and the perception of mayhem makes the masses maleable. Few will stop to think that maybe a few thousand blacks rioted in Baltimore (maybe fewer than a thousand) out of a population of 622,000 people, of which 385,000, roughly, are black. If three thousand rioted and looted, that's still less than 1% of the black population of Baltimore, yet people are ready to nuke the place from orbit based on the media meme.
When the time comes, camera angles, media accounts, looped tape, and other dirty tricks will be able to have the American People (sheeple) ready to live in irons to be "SAFE", even though they'll be throwing away their liberties (or demanding others do) based on the illusion of uncontrollable mayhem.