it s 35% lower than five years ago. john: what about the war on cops we are hearing about? in terms of cops being killed by citizens, the numbers are as low as they have been. john: put this chart at the shows 50 years. we have seen the steady decline as few as we have seen for a long time. john: the highpoint on that chart was prohibition. yes, obviously that created a dangerous situation in america. we are not like that now. it s still a difficult profession obviously that the risk of being killed in the line of duty is significantly less. john: do you feel safer in your neighborhood than they used to or are you scared? people think they are safe in the neighborhood but the nation is dangerous because they get their perceptions of their neighborhood from their everyday life. they get perceptions of what s going on from television.
the ground, oil, coal, if we keep using them, we would run out. maybe 500 years down the road, we would run out? if we keep using anything, essentially we re going to run out unless it regenerates, but we know that a couple hundred years from now we are going to discover all new ways to power our economy. if we decide we re going to leave the resources in the ground for conservation, what good is it doing us? we re using it because of enhanced health and human welfare. researching human fear, what differences have you found between what men fear and women fear? i haven t looked at a lot of gender differences in fear. startle response is universal. so humans are going to jump when startled by something, and then beyond that, it s going to depend on where a person is where, they grew up. their developmental history. john: i think women fear more stuff.
serial killers. has anyone ever cried? grown men and people who are used to watching scary things wouldn t be as frightened by haunted houses but you are finding it s different. especially that big tall i m a man, they don t know i m coming out and you see them fallback. it s the greatest thing. john: richie tried it. i haven t been afraid of the dark since i was a kid that will go into this haunted house freak me out? john: they freaked her out repeatedly. these people paid 30 bucks ahead to voluntarily be scared. why would you want to be frightened?
stossel audience there, unusually smart, it is logical to assume as population grows and more people keep using water and oil that we re going to run out. world can t keep up with the world s growing population. and so said the author of the best-selling book the population bomb. he predicted famins of unbelievable proportions but james taylor of the heartland institute says it s nonsense. it is nonsense, they ve been saying for decades, we re going to run out of water, food, oil, nobody holds them accountable. we have more of the resources than we ever had. john: hard to see how we have more. you ll explain that in a minute. paul ehrlich big best-selling book said we would have the famines long time ago. by 1975 some feel the food shortages will have escalated
and has a new book entitled scream, chilling adventures in the science sphere. the main science as i understand it is our ancestors heard sound, wrestling and may be worried that it was with the wind in one worried that it was a tiger and ran. the one that didn t run didn t get give birth to us. margee: exactly. time is done a good job is forming our threat requirements and her sensitivity that could potentially hurt us. so we are very sensitive to startle and very sensitive to things that have historically opposed a lot of harm. john: now the world is much safer so a lot of this quick response to fear isn t useful anymore. there are sort of a mismatch because a lot of the things that we are afraid of today are not the same as they were thousands of years ago. we are not very likely to be attacked by a bear.