CRIME I find myself in amazement, while watching the news, at all the violent crimes being committed in my own town. I feel that parents, drug abuse, and violence on television are the main reasons for the high crime rate in the United States. One of the main reasons the United States has such a high crime rate is because of parents. I feel that parents are not taking the responsibilities they were given when …showed first 75 words of 664 total…

…showed last 75 words of 664 total…okay to do these things, which it is most definitely not. I hope that someday the news will not be so traumatizing to watch, but I believe that crimes will only get worse. If parents would pay more attention to their children's lives, drugs could be taken off the streets, and movies were less violent, maybe the crime rate in the United States would drop. That is what I am hoping for in the future.