[alexander_busek]

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

― "Harry Lime" in Graham Greene's "The Third Man"

Regards,

[marktwain]

The United States has 38 times the population of Switzerland.

On sheer numbers, you would expect Switzerland to only have 1/38 time the number of any type of crime.

On the other hand, the Swiss have a significantly different set of cultures than do Americans.

If you look at Swiss-Americans, it is near certain their crime rate is comparable or lower than Swiss in Switzerland.

[smokingfrog]