What Piers Morgan doesn’t want you to know about Britain and violent crime (US has low crime rate)

the Right scoop ^ | December 21, 2012

[Hojczyk]

National Review posted this yesterday and this is perhaps why Piers Morgan gets all interrupty when someone tries to explain how bad violent crime is in Great Britain:

According to the Mail, Britons suffer 1,158,957 violent crimes per year, which works out at 2,034 per 100,000 residents. By contrast the number in notoriously violent South Africa is 1,609 per 100,000.

The U.S., meanwhile, has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, which is lower than France’s, at 504; Finland’s, at 738; Sweden’s, at 1123; and Canada’s at 935.

As a result of both the different ways in which these statistics are collected and of varying definitions of “violent crime,” there will naturally be some discrepancies between countries. Enough to account for a 5:1 difference between Britain and the United States, though? I rather think not.

[45semi]

A Brit couple who moved here (their son is my sons buddy) will tell you in a heartbeat about the 'asian' problem.
The funny thing is, they seem to believe that the guys that resemble 'if Øbama had a son' are in no way similar.

[Sergio]

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