People used to complain The Daily Fun only reported good news items, as it was the developer's paper, or tool. The Daily Sun now reports these type of problems and people complain about these types of episodes in TV, as if there is a major crime wave.
You can't have your cake and eat it too, even though it's my birthday.
As Red said, I suspect these type of things happened before, but were never reported. You have to expect some element of crimes happening, with a population of 110,000. To expect zero crimes, is unrealistic. That is a pretty big town, not to mention the surrounding area population, that comes into TV.
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I just want to do the right thing! Uncle Joe, (my hero).