Crime is Not News

I'll make a prediction about what will be the lead local story on the news tonight: a violent crime was committed in northeast Las Vegas.  Any time I watch the news here, the stories are exactly the same - only the names change.  Northeast Las Vegas is the "bad" part of town, and there are crimes there most every night.

I honestly don't know why the news even reports on it.  It's completely predictable, and it's not like the news is offering a solution to these problems.

The news leads with violent stories because it strikes a chord within our stone-age-wired minds.  In caveman times, if something good happened, that was all well and good.  But if something bad happened (like someone got killed), the antennaes went up because this was information that could directly impact one's physical survival.

Nowadays this isn't true.  The thugs are usually pushed into one part of town, and the normal, peaceful citizens are mostly insulated from them.  That's why reporting on crime in northeast Las Vegas is of no interest to me; they might as well be reporting on crime in South America.  In overpopulated cities that lack cohesion, crime and apathy are natural outcomes.