The Media Makes Crime Statistics Worst Then It Really Is

In “There Are No Lessons To Be Learned From Littleton” by Gary Kleck, he tells us that the media is trying to tell the public what can be learned from the massacre murders and what can be done to fix them. As well as how it causes the public to draw conclusions that in society there is increasing problems with crime rates, as well as how media based solutions makes them feel that crime situations are fixed.  This is due to news only conjugating facts about the outside world of what they think interests the public, as well as events that are unique and unheard of.  Writers try to give reasons why these events happen, by doing this it “draws the conclusion that violence in schools is a growing problem or that youth violence, gun violence, or violence in general has been increasing.” Yet Gary Kleck tells us the recent facts is that in general most violence is declining.  His “main point is that it is generally a mistake to diagnose the cause of violent and crime, or to identify effective ways to reduce violence and crime.”  When the media focuses on certain events, it draws attention from other issues that are more important to improve the way we live, as well as good things done in our society.  Schools are supposed to seem like a safe place to send students, but school killings are perceived to the public that they aren’t as generally secure as they used to be.  I found this to be a staggering example that Gary Kleck mentions, “less than one in 400 adolescent gun homicides in 1994 occurred in school or in school grounds.”  This statistic just shows how the media tends to make crime in our lives seems worst then it really is.  Why do you think there is more mass student massacres in the United States then in Canada?