We quickly forget how every generation we become convinced the moral standard of the country is eroding and how the end time is near.

One day it will happen, sure, all things end. If there had been an internet in the 1960's it would have been the same.

If there had been an internet in 1919 it would have been much, much worse.

And one of those articles is from August 2015.

Violent crime is rising? I can believe that. You have deflated wages and under-employment and the areas hurt the most by that are typically in poorer areas anyway.

It is most likely cyclical. Also reading the articles, it appears they are comparing the first half of 14 to the first half of 15.

[quote]According to the Christian Science Monitor, part of the reason the increases look so high is because violent crime, including murder, has dropped so much since the 1990s. In addition, it is not yet clear that it's the beginning of a long-term increase.

"I think it's unfortunate when the media talks a lot about these crime spikes … It tends to scare the public," Inimai Chettiar, director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, told the CS Monitor. "A lot of people don't even know there was a massive crime decline."[quote]

This post was edited on 1/19/16 at 3:01 pm