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found a fun fact
« on: September 14, 2013, 09:08:33 PM »
Looking at the FBI data in table 1 on page 64, the violent crime rate in the US was 504.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, while property crime ran at 3656.1 per 100,000 inhabitants. The Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics has crime numbers online, but not the crime rate. The table shows 101,143 violent crimes and 919,262 property crimes in 2001. With a population of 16,171,520 (September 2002), this works out as 625.4 violent crimes per 100,000 people and 5684.4 proprety crimes. Or, to put it differently, the violent crime rate in the Netherlands in 24% higher than in the US, and the property crime rate is 55% higher.
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Re: found a fun fact
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2013, 09:25:57 PM »
B-b-b-but--civilized Europe! Wild West America with bloody streets!
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Re: found a fun fact
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2013, 09:28:04 PM »
Not really surprised.

The UK is much the same. And violence and property crimes aside, the actual murder rate there is the same if not higher. The U.S. really takes it on the chin with our honesty in reporting statistics, such as counting every unnatural non-accidental death as a "murder" vs. other countries that only list convicted murders, leaving out manslaughter, plea deals, and ones that simply went unsolved.
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Re: found a fun fact
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2013, 09:42:23 PM »
IIRC Britain only counts as Murders/Homicides those that are actually sentenced for the crime.   (That's one way to keep the numbers down).
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« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2013, 10:18:27 PM »
Also need to separate out crime by race. Its highly correlated, and therefore statistically cannot be ignored regardless of what is culturally palatable today.
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