violent crime is on the decrease, has been for a few decades if Im not mistaken

we do place more of a premium on things and money than we do on people or community,, which certainly makes it easier to justify why some deserve life less than others do

the first step is to dehumananize people, diminish them in their human significance,, and then its easy to snuff out their lives

I think we have media , education, and politics to thank for the culture that qualifies the significance of peoples lives,,,on their work status, or their financial class, or their race, or their gender, or their choice of behaviors or words,,,

and people get far too much of their information from unchecked media instead of from living and experiencing for themselves.. people think if they see and hear about it more its happening more, and if they don't hear about it at all it must not be happening

the media has become our source, instead of life and community and family, and the human connection

I think its the opposite of pc that is our problem and more about the basic western value system we have that usually is in direct conflict with being pc, and more concerned with taking care of 'self' and climbing up on a pedestal where we can earn the right to look down upon the worth of others,,,