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To: MrB

These stats should be taken with a grain of salt. Definitions of crimes and reporting requirements vary greatly between countries.

The most accurate is usually murder, since a corpse is a pretty concrete thing.

“Robbery” in the example may be defined quite differently in some of the European countries.

“Rape” statistics are notorious for being difficult to compare between jurisdictions. In many states, for instance, “rape-rape” is now being lumped in with a good many “less serious” forms of sexual assault to bring the numbers up.

Similar games are played in reverse all the time to bring the numbers down, as in Mr. Martin’s school police department cooking the books.


68 posted on 07/23/2013 1:39:03 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

How about they start showing some self respect.

A lot of blacks where I live have some innate drive to wear the fanciest clothes, drive HUGE tricked out cars you know they can’t afford ...rims ...what have you.

Here I am, a middle class white woman and we earn a comfortable living ...but I just don’t feel the slightest need to show it. I drive a small compact car and usually dress in just jeans and a t-shirt. Nothing special. In fact, I almost feel uncomfortable drawing attention to myself or flaunting wealth.

They need to stop trying to prove whatever it is they’re trying to prove. It seems THEY feel inferior, and I think the whole ghetto act somehow helps them to feel better about themselves in some way.

They just need to calm down and accept themselves, for once ...stop the crazy gang banger act and the ghetto talk. Dress and talk normally and don’t get into debt over trying to look like royalty. Just BE. And then go to bed early so they can get up early FOR WORK.

Like we do. Every night, without fail, until its time to take your 2-week vacation that comes once a year.

We actually know a black couple just like this ..they call themselves black nerds. They shouldn’t do that. They’re just smart, regular working people ... and they have nothing to prove.


72 posted on 07/23/2013 1:54:34 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: Sherman Logan
The most accurate is usually murder, since a corpse is a pretty concrete thing.

Even that might be iffy. Someone on another thread a while ago mentioned that in some European countries, it's only "murder" if there's an arrest. On my list of "Things to look up if I'm ever that bored" is that person's claim that in England, there's a high number of "non-natural, non-accidental, non-suicidal" deaths, which somehow don't get added to the murder statistic.
83 posted on 07/23/2013 2:17:32 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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