I clicked through a few of the Metro "crime" links - dear god, what an horrific world we live in.

I really would like a newspaper that had some kind of "sense of perspective" meter - where reading an article of "woman starved and mutilates her own child" also puts down "we estimate this sort of thing happens in one out of 100,000 households - and is out weighted by parents who gave up drugs to look after children in 1 out of 30,000 households

But a daily diet of that shit unbalanced would certainly drive your world view and politics to demand "something must be done".

Warning, that link is not for the faint of heart.