Can you link to this information? Americans came from extremely hard conditions, much harder than anyone today experiences and there was not the level of viole

Can you link to this information? Americans came from extremely hard conditions, much harder than anyone today experiences and there was not the level of violence and crime we see today. Perhaps you can pay off the violent criminals in the short term but in the long term the criminals will cause social breakdown. People always want more, and if violence and the threat of violence is how they get more that is what they will continue to do.