Reply #11: The rate of crime shown on TV has gone up. Used to be only San Antonio

[McCamy Taylor]

had all crime news. Now every city's news is all crime, and even the national news is all crime and even the 24 hour news is stuffed with as much crime as possible. Same for TV programming--dramas, documentaries.

This gives people the impression that the world in which they live is a bursting at the seems with criminal activity.

In fact, most crime rates are down.

On the other hand, thanks to crazy drug laws that allow users and their girls friends to be incarcerated for years, the prison industrial complex is booming. And dont forget women who write hot checks to pay the rent. DAs are putting them behind bars at rates never dreamed of in the past in order to fill all those prison cells. Being Black and poor in America is enough of a crime to get you some time. It is a wonder the crime rate isnt higher.