UN Crime Statistics:

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - UN Crime Statistics:

Posted: 7/23/2002 7:45:49 PM EDT

[url]http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=314832[/url]

England and Wales now top the Western world's crime league, according to United Nations research.

The UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute reveals that people in England and Wales experience more crime per head than people in the 17 other developed countries analysed in the survey.

In the UN study, researchers found that nearly 55 crimes are committed per 100 people in England and Wales compared with an average of 35 per 100 in other industrialised countries.

England and Wales also have the worst record for "very serious" offences, recording 18 such crimes for every 100 inhabitants, followed by Australia with 16.

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Glad those gun bans are working. We should just follow suit, and do the same thing THEY did!
[rolleyes]

-Gloftoe

Posted: 7/23/2002 7:47:59 PM EDT

[#1]

Good ammo for 2004.

Posted: 7/23/2002 7:48:15 PM EDT

[#2]

[whiney liberal voice]but they have less murders
[/whiney liberal voice]

is what i hear from a guy i argue over this with all the time

Posted: 7/23/2002 7:51:18 PM EDT

[#3]

Finally something good coming from the UN.

Posted: 7/23/2002 8:00:30 PM EDT

[#4]

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Finally something good coming from the UN.

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Even so... Fuck 'em.

Posted: 7/23/2002 8:11:31 PM EDT

[#5]

I wish they had published the entire list so we could see that we were number 18. It would be great to have those stats to throw in the face of the next asshole that brings up England as an example of gun control.

Posted: 7/23/2002 8:12:22 PM EDT

[#6]

wait wait... I have a link for that... hang on, and I'll dig it up.

[url]http://www.unicri.it/icvs/publications/pdf_files/key2000i/index.htm[/url]

click on "Download text in pdf"
It's in "Additional Tables" I think. It's pretty tough to go through, because most of the charts are in landscape mode in the pdf.

Also check out "Victimisation Rates" Pretty interesting charts in there.

Posted: 7/24/2002 12:03:52 AM EDT

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[b]Shadow Home Secretary Oliver Letwin said: "This just shows why it is ridiculously complacent for the Government to claim a respectable record on crime. The fact is, we have a crime crisis in our inner cities and no coherent programme from the Government to tackle it." [/b]

hmmmmmmm.... take away the citizens means to defend themselves while trying to teach criminals to be nice guys isn't working. Maybe they should ask the U.N. for an expeditionary force to monitor the streets and enforce a curfew. If that doesn't work then lock up all the non-criminals to keep them safe.

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