Incorrect. There was less violence overall in the wild west. Modern America has insane violence at much larger scales (inner city gang violence in Chicago, millions of civilians killed over the past 2 decades via Iraq, Drone programs, etc).

The wild west was only wild because Hollywood needed a narrative.

Interesting. Do you have any sources of information to back that up? It contradicts my perception of things, and I would like to know if I've been operating under a faulty understanding. Example: according to this [1] article : per-capita murder rates were something on the order of 30/100000 in colonial times, 15/100000 in the "wild west" period compared to 6/100000 today.

[1] https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/16/a-crime-puzzle-violent...

Lol that's not true at all. Why spout nonsense?

First our cities today are as safe as they have ever been. Crime is slightly up from 2018 but 2018 was the lowest ever. Small bumps in crime are not usual.

Second, googling murder rates in that region is possible and they are an order of magnitude greater than even the worse US cities.

You shouldn't be down voted, this is largely correct. High rates of violence in the "wild west" are a myth created by Hollywood.

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=6182

It was downvoted because it was an irrelevant, off topic rant. The question was about financial fraud, not violence.

I would clarify further. High rates of violence were an exaggeration of 19th Century East Coast newspapers that created a myth that was perpetuated by Hollywood.