Crime is not on the rise

[kudasaru]

I'm reading a Times news article about how crime has been decreasing steadily since the early 1990s

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[halfassured]

Maybe crime is lower because everyone is playing video games!

I wonder what scary youth culture our generation will be afraid of when we're 50.

[hiroyuy]

Ive never bought into that whole story about videogames inducing violence. It's all complete bull. I always thought it had more to do with games not being aesthetically pleasing or people being paranoid. I think in all the time I've been reading, I've read about 1 or two stories that talk about POSSIBLE but not ACTUAL videogame violence crimes but nothing actually proving it. I have however read about games helping how to read, how to cope with stress and these days I read about the Wii and all the ways its improving health for old and young people. These days the number of Wii owners over 50 and 60 outnumber those below 20. Maybe I'll post some sometime.

Anyway, how long till our generation wipes out the baby-boomers? :D 20, 30 years? hmmmm! ;)