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maybe they are more violent (again not as murderous) than the us! have you ever contemplated that?! what do you think other countries are not as violent or something. the point i am trying to make is assaults still count, and a previous say people don't talk to the police in the states, people don't talk to the police here either, so who's to say the stats for the uk aren't higher also? as has also been pointed out, the sheer number and availability of guns causes the high murder rate in the states, but a country like the uk where there is hardly no any guns there is still a lot of VIOLENCE (AGAIN, not murder!)
You can't compare crime rates between countries in most cases. The FBI stats that you see for US cities are only a fraction of actual violent crime (simply punching someone in the face for example would most likely NOT end up recorded in the assault stats for a US city...if the cops even were called and bothered to take a report). Most US assaults, etc, never end up in the statistics, which is NOT the case in the UK. If the US reported crime and compiled stats the same way as in the UK, then the crime rate would appear much higher (because it is).
Homicide is the easiest to compare between countries, but even then it's not always the same. In the US, only murders and voluntary manslaughter are counted, whereas in some other countries involuntary manslaughter, justified homicides, and even attempted murders are also included in the homicide rate.
london is like more than twice chicago's size, and if this crap ever happened in london, brits would crap themselves. this isn't bragging about the usa being badder, this is showing reality.
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i've said it to you before-- people from Britain have a totally warped sense of crime and danger. Y'all act like you live in the wild west or something, like you're going to get cut down by a Colt revolver on your way to Tesco. In reality Britain is about as dangerous as Vermont.
I heard of people being lost in Istambul
Near one port they have a number of 'fish restaurants' under the huge bridge
It's not surprising that there are no clients there. Don't you even try stopping in front one of them.
You just get suddenly pushed inside and the door closes
Luckily, my photo and cell phone were cheap, and they stayed with me...
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