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For some perspective: Rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade than many other countries in Western Europe http
by betageek 13y ago
For some perspective:
Rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade than many other countries in Western Europe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22275280 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22275280
Homicide rate is less than loads of EU countries (and Canada!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
- flexie 13y agoMurder rate is one of the best proxies for comparing violent crimes in different countries because it's usually defined more similarly than other violent crimes. At 1.2 the UK still has higher murder rate than most of its neighboring countries: Germany (0.8), Denmark (0.9), Norway (0.6), the Netherlands (1.1), France (1.1). In that end of Europe, only Belgium (1.7) and Ireland (1.2) is doing worse or equally bad. The "loads of" EU countries doing worse are mainly some of the new member states from Eastern European, which are much poorer than the UK. Only Belgium and Finland seem like countries the UK would like to compare themselves to that are actually doing worse.
- Kurtz79 13y agoI think it's quite interesting how uniform are the murder rates across western europe.
- betageek 13y agoYour original comment was "Violent crimes is worst in EU." This is clearly not true. If you'd like to reword your comment to "UK violent crime is worst in an ad-hoc collection of countries I've decided on" I'll withdraw my comment.