Express a cynical outlook on society's priorities and its willingness to overlook violence and corruption by those in power.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.  There's always less STREET crime under a fascist regime (which we have been long before the advent of the "Trumpy Horror Picture Show").  Crimes by our corporate and political 'elite' and their trusted servants grow by leaps and bounds.  But the 'comfortable' mainstream only care about illusory "safety" and comfort--as long as the trains run on time, etc. blowing little seven year-old girls' heads off while they sleep, or shooting unarmed folks in the back, isn't important.  And of course these are the folks who will squeal like little piggies if the violent apparatus of the State comes down on THEM...