crime continues among friends

more funny business

There's always fun in the nature of people and their fears. Tossing a Muslim family off the plane is certainly more apt to happen than finding a church going family man as a homicidal maniac.

What does help is if the media did a better job of reporting the cold hard facts of these things. Even the quasi-media involved in criminal reporting (cop shows) often does a poor job of linking the risks to people we know over the random people who we don't. The good nuggets:

....In the U.S., the proportion of murder victims who knew their assailants to victims killed by strangers is about 3-to-1.

....Sixty-four percent of women who are raped know their attackers; and 61 percent of female victims of aggravated assault know their attackers. (Men, on the other hand, are more likely to be assaulted by a stranger.)...(I guess I this explains why people get out of my way so much with my generally "pissed off" expression and my size).

....of the missing children in one recent year, “203,900 were family abductions, 58,200 were nonfamily abductions, and only 115 were ‘stereotypical kidnappings,’ defined in one study as ‘a nonfamily abduction perpetrated by a slight acquaintance or stranger in which a child is detained overnight, transported at least 50 miles, held for ransom, or abducted with the intent to keep the child permanently, or killed....

...Don’t forget that the greatest financial fraud in history was committed primarily among friends. (Madoff was operating a confidence scam).