for those with no understanding of history, I'd like to tell you all that you're being manipulated....
if you look at the rates of what you might call 'personal crimes' i.e. such things as Murder, Child Abuse and so forth you'll find that they have been fairly constant for very many years, possibly forever, and the reason is fairly obvious I would have thought - I could have added terrorism, that's no new thing either....
now, whilst the world would be a better place if such things did not exist there is no doubt the media and vested interests are making the most of frightening the general population in order to exert more control over their 'subjects'....
as for child abuse - the worst aspect of it is that if you are a victim, then the perpetrator will almost certainly be a member of either your direct or extended family.... the roaming stranger abducting pedophile is in fact quite rare, as you might expect.... so why is there so much emphasis placed on 'stranger danger' when the real danger is in most cases very close to home indeed....
