"The Whole City, is alarm'd and uneasy; Wickedness has got such a Head, and the Robbers and Insolence of the Night are such, that the Citizens are no longer secure within their own Walls, or safe even in passing their Streets, but are robbed, insulted and abused, even at their own Doors... a wave of general criminality has spread over the whole nation..."

Daniel Defoe wrote this in the early eighteenth century in a pamphlet to the mayor of the city. The sentiments stated in here are not unlike the today show editorials of Alan Jones, and the numerous editorials and headlines of daily newspapers. In fact, an in depth study into history shows that crime has always existed, and that the concerns of the community have been similarly wedged in terms of security. But the fact is, crime today is no worse than it ever was two hundred years ago or sixty years ago. However, Defoe's pamphlet to the mayor contain some even more amazing statements that unfortunately say to us "de ja vous" in the current climate.