Post by bancroft on Oct 29, 2024 18:13:28 GMT
The problem with the thread opener is that in the sixties you had rather a lot of crime but no media to report it.
TV had a ten minute one o clock news, a fifteen minute six o clock news and a thirty minute nine o clock news. Radio was similar.
Children were out all day while Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were murdering them but nobody broadcast it every 15 minutes, so the perception of Britain as a country filled with murderous serial killers and rampaging yobs was never given the oxygen of publicity.
I knew someone who lost his job after appearing on front pages of the tabloids kicking someone in the face at Brighton as Mods and Rockers clashed.
In the 80's women being raped in South London as police tied themselves up in knots trying to avoid saying they were black.
Locally now most offenders are not of British stock for those that make print, no doubt many also come from poorer sections of society.