My parents watch Criminal Minds and similar shows all the time, two friends of mine bought a book about a serial killer and my Twitter timeline is full of people talking about a new true crime podcast. It's just my bubble or is it a broad cultural phenomenon?
Where I live people call the cops because the neighbors music is too loud. People involves the police even in the simplest conflicts, they act like rich people nannies.
Oh we have that in the states too. I remember either it was on here or back on the sub, someone shared a story about a US town where the police where called for everything. Shit you not, one of the calls was for squirrels fighting in someone's front yard.