brainstorming news article

Like most people who watch the news, the stories that catch my eyes are the stories involving crime.  I have a feeling, this isn't because people like when bad things happen to others but it is what pulls on peoples heart strings. For my own news story I would want to do something related to crime and how people are affected by it. I was thinking of doing an news article on why people are more attracted to articles related to crime rather than something else. I could do this by posting two articles on face book or twitter and see which one I get more of  reaction from.  I also believe that people are so interested in crime because it happens every where and can happen to anyone at anytime. In my opinion, people always want to read about crime because in some way, it  makes people feel like bad things wont happen to them or it makes them feel like better people. But I am interested in finding out the real reason why people get so interested when something goes wrong. Another idea I had was to  write a fictional  article based on a crime that happened from the perspective of someone who was involved. I think this would be interesting to do because I could take it in so many different directions. I could take the perspective of the person who committed the crime, any one who was involved, their family, or the police.