Discuss the role that the media plays in shaping the public's attitude towards crime rates.
If you get all your information from the first 10 minutes of the evening news I can see how you'd think that way.  However, if you do some actual research you'd find violent crime is actually way down in the nei compared to decades past.  Same goes for the country as a whole. But ignorant people like you are too lazy to do any actual research or thinking.