Skipper

I'm with the optimists on this topic. In my own, admittedly limited, experience there seems to be far less casual violence around me now than there was in the 1960s. For example, as someone recently pointed out, we have bouncers at pubs nowadays not because the threat of violence has gone up but because we've become far less tolerant of it.

When I was a lad on the mean streets of Croydon and South London, no Friday or Saturday night was complete without several fairly serious brawls at closing time.

Now they're rare enough to make it into the local papers. And that's probably why so many people fret that there's more of it around now than there was.

One of my golden rules - if you read about "it" in the papers there's almost certainly not much of "it" around (see also the reporting of fatal rail crashes re ditto of car dittos)...
 

I feel sure this is true too and would echo the views of Hughes. Yesterday Greater Manchester Police tweeted that there was an attempted burglary in Salford Quays. 'Only an attempt?' I thought. Implies, as Hughes suggests, that there is not as much of it about as we might think.
 

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