Show me your statistics. London had 125 murders in 2011 compared to over 400 in NYC. There might be more property crime in London, but I'd rather walk down in a street there (and have) than any large American city.
I said violent crime rate not the number of murders.
British violent crime 4 times that in the US.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2970852/posts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5712573/UK-is-violent-crime-capital-of-Europe.html