From direct experience. I can only look at that from Finland, but it has increased rapidly in many areas, including domestic violence. It has always been an issue here, but it has been pushing more into the realm of murder-suicide in the last decade or so. This isn't the first case "close" to me - it is the third in the last 5 years.

Then there are the stabbings on the streets and at parties with kids in their mid teens. The pile of drug addicts in the centre that didn't exist two decades ago. The number of rapes which unfortunately, is again close to me, with multiple friends.

It isn't the news that gives me this view.