in theory, anyway

I would say catching a murderer is important, but we were catching killers before mass Internet surveillance and if you can show me data PROVING this rate of arrest has been improved for the better, I'll believe it. Still, even then I'd have to weigh it against the validity of sacrificing freedoms of everyone to catch about 1% of criminals, which I generally would not do.

^ the evidence suggests that isnt the case

most murders are crimes of passion, not premeditated.

mass murders

True

correction

Mass Murders are statistically 0

mass murderers

True; mass murders are generally premeditated...

not mass murders

sorry

but usually, they want noteriety.. they are looking for the fame..

(infamy)

True

several murders committed by the same person over a long period of time

Mass shootings/murders make up a fraction of homicides per year.

Serial murder?

even rarer than mass murder

yet what are people more afraid of?

Media hyperbole.

nazi's

media hyperbole? please, these types of fear existed before media companies

The MSM MAKES these things scary. They are scary, but the odds of being the victim of a mass homicide event in the US is slimmer than being in a plane crash or getting hit by a train.

the boogieman has been scaring people since the start of humanity

Well...

Fear sells papers, so to speak.

I would say it depends on your interpretation of MSM.

Fear clicks links.

fear sells everything

it sells guns too

Sex sells things better.

actually it doesn't

people forget what products are in sexy ads

I could say, the 15th Century equivalent of the MSM would be the church scaring people about Satan.

the issue is seclusion,

People listen to the media and the media sells them fear 24/7
People don't go outside and talk to their neighbors, or go to the park and see people just doing people things

chat's so fast... hahaha

unless your logo is a hot naked chick

they remember that

So they get a warped view of reality

we survale the population because we dont trust witness testimony as much as we use to. in the past witness testimony was our method of servalence. "you saw a crime, who was the perp?" servalence is basicly an effert to keep a witness bias out of the case though doesent do anything about the bias of those witnessing the servailence. basicly though theres never been a community on earth where your identity was not tracked by someone and if your identity was a problem to someone and they reported you to the arbitrator of the local mob then that arbitrator would make the choice of what happens to you based on the servalience given to them