Read annual reports on crime stats and other things from your local, state, and federal governments (or equivalent). The world does not change so quickly. The r

Read annual reports on crime stats and other things from your local, state, and federal governments (or equivalent). The world does not change so quickly. The rare time when news actually IS of practical importance to you (like with Flint MI water or the NC water issues) someone will probably tell you about it. Most of the news focuses on the tails of the distributions of things that happen, otherwise it wouldn't be 'news.' Thus if you use the news as a measure of what happens you are taking it from a source of things that literally almost never happen.