Source? Because violence from the authorities used to be not just more common but more or less accepted. Certainly more accepted than it is now. One only has to go back as far as the 60s to see it televised.
Though we do produce such things as the Kardasians and Real Wives…, so your point ha some merit. Then again, we are behind the curve in German scat porn and tentacle rape porn, and we haven’t had an honest to god Civil War in over 150 years.
