On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:02:07 -0700, Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:

> In article > ,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> On 15/07/2011 1:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> I am 60. We had TV when I was a kid but we did not spend a lot of time
>>>> watching it. Admittedly, it was a small screen black and white, nothing
>>>> like the wide screen colour hi def that is available now. We had an
>>>> antennae that pulled in only 3 or 4 stations. We were not allowed to
>>>> watch much tv. My mother used to boot us out of the house to play. We
>>>> would head out on our bicycles and come back for meals, or pack a lunch.
>>>
>>> Streets were much safer then... I grew up on the streets of Brooklyn,
>>> back then a drive-by was the Good Humor man. There were no school
>>> buses, kindergartners walked to school ... mothers walked a kid to
>>> school the first week, that was it... kids grew up fast... today 40
>>> year olds are still living at home, and with no responsibilities.
>>
>> I am not so sure that the streets were much safer back then. There was a
>> murder in my small town. We all knew that we had to be careful about
>> strangers. There were cases of sexual molestation. There were kids
>> killed and kids that went missing. It was part of life and people tried
>> to street proof their kids. Now they cloister them.
>
> I don't think anyone believes it didn't happen in the past, but you
> better believe it's more common now.

violent crime is in fact decreasing in the u.s.:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States>

your pal,
blake