Will have to agree with you Brian, very rare when I was growing up in the 60,s & 70,s - if a murder was reported near to where you lived, it was headline news, now its just, oh well, another one bites the dust, I for one, think the streets are much more dangerous now than they were in the 60,s & 70,s, think the problems started to take off once we reached the 80,s for some reason that I cannot answer