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In 1967 the government changed the way crimes were recorded. Some originally recorded as homicide were no longer counted as homicide, these include deaths caused by the IRA, which were moved from murder to acts of terrorism. for example, and those reclassified as manslaughter.
Assault victims 2.8% 1.2%
DEFINITION: People victimized by assault (as a % of the total population). Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevelence.
SOURCE: UNICRI (United Nations Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin
Ranked 2nd. 133% more than United States Ranked 11th.
Rape victims 0.9% 0.4%
DEFINITION: People victimized by sexual assault (as a % of the total population). Data refer to female population only. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
SOURCE: UNICRI (United Nations Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin
Ranked 6th. 125% more than United States Ranked 13th.
Total crime victims 26.4% 21.1%
DEFINITION: People victimized by crime (as a % of the total population). Data refer to people victimized by one or more of 11 crimes recorded in the survey: robbery, burglary, attempted burglary, car theft, car vandalism, bicycle theft, sexual assault, theft from car, theft of personal property, assault and threats. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
SOURCE: UNICRI (United Nations Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin
Ranked 3rd. 25% more than United States Ranked 15th.
Originally posted by SWCCFAN
According to Morgan there were 39 "gun murders" in the UK in 2011. So all the other people killed with bats, knives, and other weapons don"t matter?
Murder is murder end of story, the tool used is irrelevant other than being used as evidence to present in hopes of achieving a conviction.
The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - there are 89 guns for every 100 Americans, compared to 6 in England and Wales.
And the murder figures themselves are astounding for Brits used to around 550 murders per year. In 2011 - the latest year for which detailed statistics are available - there were 12,664 murders in the US. Of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms.
Originally posted by Superhans
reply to post by wmd_2008
Well I will just throw this out there, im in no way racist, yeah I know that is typical thing to say before saying something that can be perceived as racist. But facts are facts and statistics don't lie.
Just for yourself because I would not want to be accused of making stuff up.
look up the African American population in the US, then compare it to the UK
look up the demographics of prison in both countries.
A total of 101,199 murders were registered in Mexico during President Felipe Calderon's six-year administration, with about 50 percent of the killings drug-related, a report released Tuesday by the Mexico Evalua think tank says.
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