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Yes, but if you watch the news that fact is never reported. Instead you get story after story of robbery, murder, assault ...etc. TV news stations care about r

• JohnFen 7y ago
  However, this has been true for as long as news reporting has existed, but the level of paranoia and isolation in society has not always been as high as it is now (although there have been similar periods in the past). I don't think that the nature of media reporting, while likely a factor, is a sufficient explanation.
  • bilbo0s 7y ago
    There's also social media though, which amplifies everything for people who believe what they consume through those channels.
  • buboard 7y ago
    They would claim that all the paranoia, helicopter parenting, incarceration, worked to reduce crime
    • JohnFen 7y ago
      They can claim it, but all the objective evidence says they're wrong.