UK Violent Crime Rate Eight Times Higher Than The US

[daveman]

UK Violent Crime Rate Eight Times Higher Than The US

According to the FBI, there were 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the US during 2011. FBI — Violent Crime

According to the UK government, there were 1.94 million violent crimes in the UK during 2011. www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_296191.pdf

There are almost exactly five times as many people in the US as in the UK – 314 million vs. 63 million. The violent crime rate in the UK is 3,100 per 100,000, and in the US it is 380 per 100,000 population.

Brits are eight times more likely to be victims of violent crime than Americans. For some reason, Piers Morgan doesn’t talk about this.​

Whaaaaat? That's unpossible! Guns are illegal in the UK! How can they have any crime?!

 

[theHawk]

Not to mention so much of the violent crime stats in the US are skewed by blacks and latinos. Two large populations that Brits don't have to deal with.

 

[daveman]

It looks like more than just Piers Morgan don't want to talk about this.

 

[L.K.Eder]

do your homework and establish that those are comparable data sets.

then maybe someone will talk about this.

 

[mudwhistle]

do your homework and establish that those are comparable data sets.

then maybe someone will talk about this.

Learn to use caps and then you can start talking about doing homework.

 

[L.K.Eder]

do your homework and establish that those are comparable data sets.

then maybe someone will talk about this.

Learn to use caps and then you can start talking about doing homework.

thanks for sharing.

 

[daveman]

do your homework and establish that those are comparable data sets.

then maybe someone will talk about this.

The homework's been done. It's in the OP. You'd have seen it if you'd read it.

 

[JoeB131]

do your homework and establish that those are comparable data sets.

then maybe someone will talk about this.

This has actually been debunked.

The problem is the British stat is ALL violent crimes, while the America stat is only selected crimes (Murder, rape, etc.)

Fact-Checking Ben Swann: Is the UK really 5 times more violent than the US? | The Skeptical Libertarian

First, it should be noted that the figures Swann gives are out of date: in 2010, according to the FBI, the reported rate of violent crime in the US was 403 incidents per 100,000 people–the 466 figure comes from 2007. Second, and more importantly, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports defines a “violent crime” as one of four specific offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

The British Home Office, by contrast, has a substantially different definition of violent crime. The British definition includes all “crimes against the person,” including simple assaults, all robberies, and all “sexual offenses,” as opposed to the FBI, which only counts aggravated assaults and “forcible rapes.”

When you look at how this changes the meaning of “violent crime,” it becomes clear how misleading it is to compare rates of violent crime in the US and the UK. You’re simply comparing two different sets of crimes. In 2009/10, for instance (annual data is from September to September), British police recorded 871,712 crimes against persons, 54,509 sexual offenses, and 75,101 robberies in England and Wales. Based on the 2010 population of 55.6 million, this gives a staggeringly high violent crime rate of 1,797 offenses per 100,00 people.

But of the 871,000 crimes against the person, less than half (401,000) involved any actual injury. The remainder were mostly crimes like simple assault without injury, harassment, “possession of an article with a blade or point,” and causing “public fear, alarm, or distress.” And of the 54,000 sexual offenses, only a quarter (15,000) were rapes. This makes it abundantly clear that the naive comparison of crime rates either wildly overstates the amount of violence in the UK or wildly understates it in the US.

 

[Unkotare]

UK Violent Crime Rate Eight Times Higher Than The US

According to the FBI, there were 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the US during 2011. FBI — Violent Crime

According to the UK government, there were 1.94 million violent crimes in the UK during 2011. www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_296191.pdf

There are almost exactly five times as many people in the US as in the UK – 314 million vs. 63 million. The violent crime rate in the UK is 3,100 per 100,000, and in the US it is 380 per 100,000 population.

Brits are eight times more likely to be victims of violent crime than Americans. For some reason, Piers Morgan doesn’t talk about this.​

Whaaaaat? That's unpossible! Guns are illegal in the UK! How can they have any crime?!

You'd be pissed too if you had to eat that food everyday!