Why the violence is increasing or is it social media which is showing violence?

Murders, slaughters, road rage , robbery, terrorism etc.

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According to most statistics, crime rates are down over-all. BUT 24-hour news, social media, etc., means we are more aware of anything that happens much more than in the past. Plus a (for example) 5% crime rate when the population was 100,000,000 is 1/3 the actual number of crimes for a population of 300,000,000 -- and our population keeps rising, so the actual number of crimes increases even if the rate stays the same or drops.

GerOttman · 70-79, M

@ChipmunkErnie I think that raises an interesting point. Percentage don't tell the whole story. If 30 thousand people were harmed and you have a 33 percent reduction, that still leaves a fairly large number. To have a valid concern about being included in that statistic is not unreasonable to way of thinking.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@GerOttman But it also means things have gotten better for that 33% who would have been harmed BEFORE the decrease. The perceived increase in crime is what drives politics, it seems. As with the putting of the National Guard into the NY subway system -- even the governor who sent them in admitted that there was no actual crime problem in the subways, that it was all for the perception in the media and public eye.