Sorry to say that you might be right. I went to the Univ of London in the '70s. People would ask me about crime in America, because it was so foreign to them. The only crime I ever worried about was the typical stuff that might happen in tourist areas, such as getting your wallet stolen. Even when I went back in the early '90s, the crime was no where near what it is now.
I'm a big city girl. I understand that crime happens in huge cities such as London, but I don't think it's just the crime that is getting to me - it's the lax punishments, the inability of the innocent to defend themselves, the growing submission to Islam such as no piggy banks, it's all very different from the Britain I longed to visit as a young student of English literature.
We shouldn’t be too far behind. We’re getting ready to install Hussein as our leader!