Today's notatall Disturbing Rumination:

I'm guessing that Systems Theory would predict that if humans truly no longer face significant non-human predators, that the human community itself would start to produce an increasing number of predators, to prey upon itself.

As we, I believe, have seen.

Which leads to the question, is there truly only more thorough reporting of, for example, incidents of violence and predation that lead to deaths...or has that incidence actually increased lately...?

I guess only statistics - which are only as good as human record-keeping - might possibly shed some light on that question.