A driver runs down and kills 15 pedestrians on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. A man pushes a commuter in front of a New York subway train days after a migrant sets a homeless woman on fire, killing her, on a train in Brooklyn. The FBI says crime is down in every category, especially violent offenses. But urban areas feel lawless and out of control and the latest Gallup poll finds that a majority of Americans believe crime is extremely or very serious.
Are Americans paranoid? What effects are the migrant and homeless crises having? What can the authorities do at the local and national levels to make people feel safe?
“TMI Show” hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan are joined by Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to discuss the state of a scared nation.
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A subject that is brought up anecdotally over and over is that massive casualties or unique casualties are presented in news with headlines.
An interesting correlation would be the relationship between these headline-grabbing cases of self and large casualty harm and the rise of an index (if such a thing exists) for when an individual human feels minimized or devalued.
I doubt that there are increases in terrorism when people live with all of their basic needs and community ties met. I also doubt that there are increases in attention grabbing casualties and suicide when mental health indices are higher.
The thing I wonder is why that sort of index or correlation is never news on a monthly, wuarterly or annual basis?