Unfortunately, there are enough of those stories to keep the pipeline full. However, selection bias is the problem. Your neighbor probably doesn't realize or

Unfortunately, there are enough of those stories to keep the pipeline full. However, selection bias is the problem. Your neighbor probably doesn't realize or even encounter the (most likely) far more numerous cases of "person out on bail / released early goes back to normal life and things are fine." Same reason I don't watch prime time news unless I know a particular story will be covered (hapy local event things, basically). Sensational sells, happy normal everyday life far outnumbers all those stories but who watches the nightly news to hear "man woke up, went to get his newspaper, and saw the first bloom of the year - much happier today"?