Over the last few weeks, reports of the so-called “knock-out game” in the US Northeast have surfaced in various media, ranging from local community news websites in Brooklyn, New York, to a regional TV station, all the way to the Daily Mail, the world’s most visited news website . The extent of the coverage would have you believe that American streets have become especially dangerous in a matter of days, and that a sneaky sucker punch is just a street corner away. What we know Reported “knockout game” assaults are said by such media outlets to follow the same pattern:...