red-eyed and bushy tailed

Muggings

I feel like I know an inexplicably high number of people who have been mugged, more than one involved a weapon, more than one was injured.

So here is my question. Are muggings on the rise everywhere, or does wholesale I choose to be friends with constitute a statistical anomaly?

(off the top of my head I count 6 people, a mix of nyc and sf)