[Little Ray]

Money comment: "The murder rate in the UK is either equal to or higher than the murder rate in the US."

Whodathunkit?

Note to Humblegunner - Not my blog.

[prisoner6]

Interesting. Thanks!

[sodpoodle]

The number of ‘missing persons’ would also be an interesting statistic. Until someone is found dead (or alive), there is no way to know with certainty if it involves an accident, suicide or murder.

[bboop]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[trubolotta]

Not to be too blunt, but I would call the practice described in the UK “cooking the books.” Now why would a government do that? (I'll leave it for others to speculate.)

Given that is how homicides are counted, I have to wonder about how other crimes are reported and recorded: robbery, assault, kidnapping, burglary, rape and so on, all crimes that can be thwarted by a firearm.

[allmendream]

Wow. Then OBVIOUSLY Chicago doesn’t have a “murder” problem - they have a problem with bodies showing up dead!

75% of ‘murders’ in Chicago go unsolved.

So by the English murder rate accounting standards their murder rate is at least 1/4th of what it would be going by American accounting standards.

Wow - what an ingenous way to lower the murder rate.

I heard this morning on AM radio that the rate of RAPE in the UK is twice that in the USA.

[Moltke]

...which gives us a [US] "murder" rate of 4.8 per 100,000 population.

...then the UK murder rate is 4.7 per 100,000 or about 15% higher than the US murder rate.

4.7 is 15% more than 4.8. Must be the 'new math' I hear about so much.

[Vinnie]

ping for later. Whoa!!!!