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I wonder how the London police manage to keep order without carrying guns ?
by manishsharan 11y ago
I wonder how the London police manage to keep order without carrying guns ?
- rayiner 11y agoBecause western European cities are vastly less violent: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/lets-hold-off-celebrating_b_4405153.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/lets-hold-off-cel.... Baltimore, where I live, has 25x the per-capita murder rate of London. Chicago has 13x the murder rate. New York, the safest large city in the country, has 3x the murder rate.
- rubenariz 11y agoB-more the city that bleeds.(I live there too) That said, the murders usually occur in the same bad areas over and over. If you live in a good area, you notice it only on the evening local news.
- revelation 11y agoI don't get the connection, it's not cops being killed at a higher rate.
- mxfh 11y agoBecause the general public isn't expected to be armed with firearms either.
- DanBC 11y agoThere are several armed criminal gangs in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_Kingdom
- mc32 11y agoBecause outside of rural areas guns and permits are extremely hard to come by, so the cops don't need to presume a threatening person has a high likelihood of having a gun.