“America’s Most Needed” host John Walsh says America’s spiraling crime stats, and criminals getting smarter are simply 2 the reason why his well-known present is returning to FOX.

John and his son, Callahan Walsh, are internet hosting the ‘AMW’ reboot, and so they joined us Monday on “TMZ Reside” to debate how crime has modified because the present’s preliminary heyday within the ’90s and early 2000s.

It was approach again in 1988 when ‘AMW’ premiered on FOX and John tells us crime is so dangerous lately, honchos on the FBI informed him they wished his present to return, so he may assist bust criminals … significantly in areas the company considers “lawless.”

One other change because the OG ‘AMW’ … John says advances in know-how are making it simpler to search out criminals — however he factors out a few of that know-how additionally offers the dangerous guys extra instruments to interrupt legal guidelines, and get away with it.

There are many new criminals for John and Callahan to trace down on their reboot … however they inform us their program may even take a crack at fixing some chilly instances too.

Nobody understands the significance of staying on instances like that greater than the Walsh household — John factors out he waited 27 years for the police information that finally helped resolve his 6-year-old son Adam‘s 1981 abduction and homicide.

The brand new ‘AMW’ premieres tonight at 8 PM ET on FOX, and the Walshes inform us they plan to maintain preventing crime in Adam’s honor.

Following the premiere of ‘AMW,’ make sure you stick round and tune into “TMZ Investigates: Obsessed and Harmful: Hollywood’s Stalker Disaster” — the beginning of a weekly collection that hits FOX Monday at 9/8c.