Lowering of taxes resulted in more crime

[glamatomic]

Originally Posted by OzzyRules

If my premise is incorrect, then how do you account for the fact that people are locking their doors more these days?

Why don't people let their children walk home alone anymore? Or even play outside by themselves? If it really is so much safer now.

We are more aware of crime now. Instead of just local newspapers, a short news program at 5pm on a couple of stations, etc, we are now inundated with information from all around the globe.

However, another factor is societal.

I remember my Mum (born in the 1950s) recalling that even as a 4 year old, she would walk herself down to a friends house in the neighborhood to go play.

A period newspaper article of the 1950s that I recently read, inferred that it was safe 'for children to use the suburban streets as a playground' because there were always plenty of eyes on them (ie: all of the stay at home mothers).

Nowadays, many families have both parents working, so it isn't unreasonable to think that there aren't as many neighbors at home to "keep an eye out" for each other's children when they're playing outside or walking the neighborhood unattended.

I know that very few other neighbors are at home during the day (weekdays) in my neighborhood.

[OzzyRules]

Originally Posted by glamatomic

We are more aware of crime now. Instead of just local newspapers, a short news program at 5pm on a couple of stations, etc, we are now inundated with information from all around the globe.

However, another factor is societal.

I remember my Mum (born in the 1950s) recalling that even as a 4 year old, she would walk herself down to a friends house in the neighborhood to go play.

A period newspaper article of the 1950s that I recently read, inferred that it was safe 'for children to use the suburban streets as a playground' because there were always plenty of eyes on them (ie: all of the stay at home mothers).

Nowadays, many families have both parents working, so it isn't unreasonable to think that there aren't as many neighbors at home to "keep an eye out" for each other's children when they're playing outside or walking the neighborhood unattended.

I know that very few other neighbors are at home during the day (weekdays) in my neighborhood.

If more mothers are working you can blame that on conservative policies. Men used to be able to earn a living and buy a house with their jobs. Now it takes both parents working.

All of this is due to greed.

[don1945]

Originally Posted by OzzyRules

If my premise is incorrect, then how do you account for the fact that people are locking their doors more these days?

Why don't people let their children walk home alone anymore? Or even play outside by themselves? If it really is so much safer now.

Well, while it is true this isn't Mayberry any longer, for the most part, the majority of us get through our lives without living in fear of going out. I never worry when I am running to the store at midnight, and I never give a thought to if someone is going to smash in my front door to rob me.

If you live in certain areas, yeah, you might not feel that way, but most of us do not feel the need to pack heat when we go to the mailbox.