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Originally Posted by Ustwo
And London has a higher violent crime rate than New York City last time I checked.
Please, spare me your nanny state foibles.
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http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/page40.asp
In the last year for which full stats are available, England and Wales (not Scotland) counted 765 homicides. This includes 52 people killed by terrorism in the tube and bus bombings that year. So 765 out of 53,000,000 people.
London itself has trended between 150-200 murders each year for the last several years out of a population of 7.5 million.
New York City, in 2006, had 580 homicides in the 5 boroughs (a rise of 10 per cent over 2005, I believe) out of a population of 8.2 million.
England sounds safer to me!
When it comes to more generalized "violent" crime you need to understand several factors - notably that A) some cultures are more likely to report crime than others, and B) classification of what is "violent" crime differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.