Crime has risen over 20% in the past decade, however, some would want you to believe that you are safer today than you were a decade ago. Why is this? I believe its a movement to minimize the violence that faces todays society. In the “Wizard of Oz” Dorthy, closes her eyes and clicks her heals. Society has demanded a certain type of law enforcement, therefore, society deserves the “Bad Guys” that they get. These fallacies, such as, crime has decreased, society is safer, over militarization of our law enforcement, lack of gun control. Refusing to acknowledge the truth will not help the situation, moreover, blaming any increase of violence on police brutality or lack of gun control is absurd. Washington D.C. created a ban on handguns in 1975,
