Between 1947 and 1957 (when I left the country) the local media never published any crime related articles. We lived in the false belief that crime do not happen in the socialist paradise only in the capitalistand hellhole.
Well, we are in the middle of that "capitalist hellhole" and are surrounded with crime. People are being attacked on the streets of New York, while riding the subways, for being chinese or being orthodox jews or just for no reason at all.
The wild west was better than this. Chicago was better in the gangster days because gangsters only killed gangsters. This is impossible what goes on.
The bad thing is that the media downplays the whole situation. They are afraid to tell the truth because that might ignite race riots or something else. They don't want to point fingers at the perpetrators, because they don't want to hurt sensitive feelings.
But what about the injured public? Don't we have the right to know the kind of world we live in? When subway crimes go up 54% in two years they say it is not so bad. This is the glass half full, half empty syndrome. When is it bad?
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