Crime Wave Sweeps Britain
LONDON
The government figures are expected to report a 38 percent increase in London robberies. (AP)
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“I think that the deterrence, especially since the ‘three strikes and you are out’ legislation in the U.S., has been much greater in the U.S. than here.”
Dr. John Shepherd
(CBS) Despite its reputation as a genteel and pleasant land, a new government report depicts Britain as one of the most violent urban societies in the Western world, a place where a person’s chances of being assaulted, burgled or robbed are substantially greater than in the United States.
People outside of the UK are most familiar with the violence of....
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/06/27/world/main210074.shtml
‘Breakdown of British familes is fuelling crime wave’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article657969.ece
Quite. Nasty things happen - which the 3.4 million U.S. citizens out of the 30 million overseas tourists who visit the U.K. annually seem for the most part happily to avoid, along with the rest of us who live here all the time. If they did not, be sure the U.S. media would immediately be full of it and the tourist industry would immediately dry up, as it did temporarily after the alarms of IRA bombs, foot and mouth disease and 7/7, only to recover rapidly thereafter on each occasion. Inductive reasoning from the particular to the general is always risky.