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.
Or as Whoopi might put it, "It's not 'murder' murder."
Including those five Trinity Church members' unsolved deaths.
Looking at the referenced British document, when they say "homicide figures for England and Wales have been adjusted to exclude any cases which do not result in conviction", the full quote is
Since 1967, homicide figures for England and Wales have been adjusted to exclude any cases which do not result in conviction, or where the person is not prosecuted on grounds of self defence or otherwise. This reduces the apparent number of homicides by between 13 per cent and 15 per cent.In other words, if the subsequent trial determines the killer was not guilty of murder (eg, it was self defense or accident), then the incident is subtracted from the murder statistic.
The US murder rate is artificially high, however, because if a case is initially logged as murder, but the trial determines it was self-defense, the US stat is NOT adjusted.
Those are what the author could identify as murder. There are apparently still a fair number of murders that might be obscured by the peculiar practices of the UK justice system. Take it up with the author and let him explain it. I just thought it was interesting in light of the gun (people) control debate.