FYI, the scene that Stir referenced from Pulp Fiction is fucking hilarious.
It was because we are perfectly capable of separating fact from fiction.
Pulp Fiction is twenty years old and crime rates were an issue then. Our media has become more violent and crime rates have dropped. I am not implying there is a connection but the idea that media violence leads to higher crime should seem absurd.
There is no epidemic of crime, black on white, white on black, intraracial, due to immigrants, due to guns or of any other kind in which various fearmongers trade.
Things are improving maybe because we are a better people than the degenerates of past eras.