Pride and Prejudice

Many years ago I decided that I was puzzled by a number of things that were going on around me, that nobody was doing anything about. Why did our society seem to have become so coarse and inconsiderate? Why had the police disappeared from the streets? Why did I no longer feel that they were my allies? What was crime? Why did the prison population keep on going up and up, while the number of offences committed rose at the same time? Why were the schools so bad? Why did we seem, as a people...