
Originally Posted by
Coyote
You just answered your own premise: Camera phones.
The 90s had Bulger, Dunblane, Stephen Lawrence, among fathoms of others who would have undoubtedly spread like wildfire with camera phones and social media. The change is with the ubiquity of camera phones, not the rate of crime. It leads to the false belief that crimes like this happen more often now than today. People seeking to spin a racial agenda love this because they can cherrypick certain instances and create a narrative that a problem is worse than it actually is.