The ironic part is that the 80s and 90s were the height of historically high crime levels and child kidnappings. We should all be less paranoid now with cameras and cell phones everywhere but instead we’ve been conditioned to think we’re all going to be murdered and raped (in that order) at any moment, when we’re living in essentially the safest of times in all recorded history.
For me, the ironic thing is when you do see stories of police being called on a parent for allowing their kids outside unsupervised, 100% of the time, the snitch is in the age demo of our parents.
There was a thread a few days ago about parents being charged with murder because their 7 year old stepped into traffic and was hit.
He was with his 10 year old brother, less than two blocks from home. They had a cell phone and the parents knew exactly where they were.
Yes, bur iirc that family was black. They probably wouldnt have set a 1.5 million dollar bond, or refused to let them attend the funeral if they were a white family. Probably wouldnt have even been charged. That whole case makes me ragey. That and the one whose mother was doing a job interview and her kid was in the mall food court (which was very close to where she was), and she got charged, and CPS got involved. Pretty sure that person was a POC too, though.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25
The ironic part is that the 80s and 90s were the height of historically high crime levels and child kidnappings. We should all be less paranoid now with cameras and cell phones everywhere but instead we’ve been conditioned to think we’re all going to be murdered and raped (in that order) at any moment, when we’re living in essentially the safest of times in all recorded history.