Statistics show that most crime (exempting prostitution and drugs) is on a downfall. The rate of high violence and crime using weapons has gone down quite a lot within the last couple of years. Yet a person within our province would never know that crime is decreasing, because of the way the media, news programs, television shows, and newspapers portray violence.
Turn the television onto a news program; within the first couple of previews you will see a variety of crime related stories. Maybe a stabbing, a robbery, a hit and run, even drug related gangs are portrayed across the beginning of the news. News broadcasters go after the “big stories” in order to catch you the watchers attention. In doing so they are guaranteeing that you will watch all of the news (boosting up their ratings) in order to see the “big story”. You watch the “big story” to see where the creeps and gangs are, so that you can do everything to protect yourself and your family. It is the same in newspapers; the paper with the best story on the front will obviously sell the most. How sad is it that in our society our attention is caught by someone’s pain and suffering? Let’s be honest, everyone knows they would rather pick up a paper or watch a news program that displays violence and crime of some kind.
By viewing horrific crimes portrayed within news programs and newspapers, people suspect that crime is out of control. They believe that we should watch our backs and suspect everyone, wherever we go. But that is simply just not true. Although you should take precautions such as locking your vehicle and house, not leaving valuables out and in plain sight, and not walking alone at night, beyond that there’s really generally not a lot to worry about here in our society.
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