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INCREASED VIOLENCE & CRIME
"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Mat 24:37

Let us read the description of what the Earth was like in the days of Noe. "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them" Gen 6

Is our World filled with violence?

In the U.S. a teenager shoots his father because he wants to enjoy watching someone bleed to death. In Britain 2 ten year old boys kidnap & brutally murder a toddler. In the U.S. tragedies like the Columbine shooting have become common occurrences. More more we hear of disgruntled employees killing and maiming to vent their frustrations. In today's world such horror is becoming common-place. It is hard to imagine that even "the days of Noah" were as violence-filled as those in which we are now living! During the Vietnam war Americans mourn the death of 58,000 of their young men in 8-1/2 years of fighting ... But the casualty rate on U.S. city streets is now four times as high. The FBI reports that 24,530 people were murdered in the US in 1994 alone. The US Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that a whopping 1.1 million violent crimes were committed with guns in 1992. MANY of the victims are teenagers killed by other teenagers who seem to have no concept of the value of life. Society wrings its hands & agonizes why?
Behavioral scientists have concluded that one of the main culprits is the influence of Television and the Movie Industry--By the time the average American child is 15 years old, he will have witnessed the violent destruction of more than 35,000 human beings on television, as well as 200,000 other brutal acts of violence!
Violence is glorified in America, where the national icons from Sylvester Stallone to Arnold Schwartzenegger, now Governor of California, tend to be men who excel at violence. Movies such as the "Rambo" and "Terminator" series, which have grossed millions of dollars worldwide, illustrate how voracious the appetite for violence is in today's world.

Children's cartoons today also contain all kinds of sickening violence. Eclipsing "The Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles" and "The Simpsons," MTV's "Beavis and Butthead" has become a children's favorite. A far cry from the Disney cartoons of a generation ago, Beavis and Butthead routinely torture animals, set fire to furniture and engage in all kinds of abhorrent juvenile behavior.

Another avenue for violence is found in horror movies. Many pre-teens today watch this type of movie at "gross-out" parties with their friends. Video shops report that horror movies are especially popular among 11-to-15-year olds.

We must also mention here the rock music videos, many of which romanticize violence, sexual assaults and murder. Between the 7th and 12th grades, the average American teenager will listen to and watch 11,000 hours of rock music more than twice the time they will spend in class.

The fruit of all this is that the rock 'n' roll era has seen violent crime increase among young people by over 10,000 percent. Today In the U.S. alone a violent crime is committed every 25 seconds. Every 9 seconds a home is burglarized. A woman is raped every six minutes. Every 25 minutes someone is murdered.

The only comfort in this terrible tide of rising violence is that, according to Bible prophecy, it is yet another unquestionable sign that points to the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ, when all senseless violence and cruelty will be stopped, and war itself will be abolished!


 

Antidomestic violence tactics stall despite aggressive tactics
Scripps Howard News Service - USA
... Esparza died in May last year. In the 26 years separating their slayings, the nation witnessed a revolution in how society views domestic violence. ...

Murder has become the leading cause of death among pregnant women in the United States.
CNN, Lou Dobbs, February 21, 2005

•A Rising Tide of Crime, The Sunday Times
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  Behavioral scientists have concluded that one of the main culprits is the influence of Television and the Movie Industry--By the time the average American child is 15 years old, he will have witnessed the violent destruction of more than 35,000 human beings on television, as well as 200,000 other brutal acts of violence!
Violence is glorified in America, where the national icons from Sylvester Stallone to Arnold Schwartzenegger, now Governor of California, tend to be men who excel at violence. Movies such as the "Rambo" and "Terminator" series, which have grossed millions of dollars worldwide, illustrate how voracious the appetite for violence is in today's world.

Children's cartoons today also contain all kinds of sickening violence. Eclipsing "The Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles" and "The Simpsons," MTV's "Beavis and Butthead" has become a children's favorite. A far cry from the Disney cartoons of a generation ago, Beavis and Butthead routinely torture animals, set fire to furniture and engage in all kinds of abhorrent juvenile behavior.

Another avenue for violence is found in horror movies. Many pre-teens today watch this type of movie at "gross-out" parties with their friends. Video shops report that horror movies are especially popular among 11-to-15-year olds.

We must also mention here the rock music videos, many of which romanticize violence, sexual assaults and murder. Between the 7th and 12th grades, the average American teenager will listen to and watch 11,000 hours of rock music more than twice the time they will spend in class.

The fruit of all this is that the rock 'n' roll era has seen violent crime increase among young people by over 10,000 percent. Today In the U.S. alone a violent crime is committed every 25 seconds. Every 9 seconds a home is burglarized. A woman is raped every six minutes. Every 25 minutes someone is murdered.

The only comfort in this terrible tide of rising violence is that, according to Bible prophecy, it is yet another unquestionable sign that points to the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ, when all senseless violence and cruelty will be stopped, and war itself will be abolished!



A Rising Tide of Crime
The Sunday Times

It was enough to bring tears to any 12-year-old's eyes. His pride and joy, a new ?200 mountain bike, the Christmas present his parents had saved hard for, was gone: stolen from his own back garden by a gang of jealous youths. But Dean Pope had another reaction: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. He turned to his mother Val and said words that broke her heart: "I might as well turn to [stealing], too."

A few months later Val Pope got a call from the local police to say her son had been arrested with a gang of other youngsters caught on a shopping spree with stolen credit cards. It was the start of a teenage life of crime that led to arson charges, jail and only ended in remorse last March when his younger brother Daniel, 14, died in a car crash, joyriding, following his big brother's example.

The Pope family's case is tragic, but hardly unique. Statistics for England and Wales reveal a staggering increase in crimes committed by young people including, more than ever, girls as well as boys, many of them under 14.

The figures make harrowing reading. One in five young men has committed a violent offence by the time they reach the age of 25. The figure for women is one in 20, but that is little cause for comfort. The number of violent offences committed by girls aged 10 to 17 has doubled since 1981, while the perpetrators of nearly 8% of all violent crimes committed by women are aged between 10 and 13. Among under-25s, 17% said they had at one stage carried a weapon, either in self-defense, or with intent to cause harm. Criminals under 18 are now responsible for 28% of all violent crimes, 40% of burglaries, 11% of drug offences and 33% of criminal damage offences.

But it is not just a native disease. Across Europe there is a spreading epidemic of juvenile crime, evidence of a continent-wide youth underclass growing up outside the law.

Last week the Parisian transport system was brought to a standstill by a strike, sparked not by pay disputes but by the soaring number of attacks on staff, most of them from teenagers. Violence against staff on the Metro and buses rose by a third last year. One bus driver was badly beaten, then stabbed in the leg and stomach after refusing to drop a teenage passenger off between stops.

The Parisian public has been horrified by a spate of gruesome murders carried out by teenage girls. At 19, Florence Rey killed four people in a bungled robbery and car chase. Veronique Herbert, 18, seduced a 16-year-old Tunisian immigrant, then she and her 17-year-old boyfriend stabbed him 39 times--just for fun.