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Fewer than a lot of other countries, including many that are considered very safe/desirable places to live: 200X comparisons: http://www.nationmaster.com/count

by gojomo 12y ago

Fewer than a lot of other countries, including many that are considered very safe/desirable places to live: 200X comparisons: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Burglaries http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Burglar... 2012 (p. 8): http://www.civitas.org.uk/crime/crime_stats_oecdjan2012.pdf http://www.civitas.org.uk/crime/crime_stats_oecdjan2012.pdf A higher burglary rate than the US in both rankings are Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, and Australia. (In fact, that makes me wonder a little whether these numbers might be a mix of both "burglaries" and "whether the citizenry even bothers to report" – with other countries having more burglaries that people don't report because it doesn't help...)

omegaham 12y ago
Page 9 is the relevant graph for burglary on the Civitas pdf. The US is right in the middle. One thing I'm surprised by is the ridiculous level of assaults committed in Britain. What's going on there?
- AnimalMuppet 12y ago
  At the risk of being downvoted into oblivion: No guns. In the US, if you're going to assault someone, they may well be packing. It makes you think twice. But in the UK, you know they're not (with close to certainty), so the only question is whether you're tougher than them.
  - omegaham 12y ago
    But a large number of other countries in Europe have similar gun control, and they don't have the assault rates that Britain does.
    - AnimalMuppet 12y ago
      Ah, true. I was only thinking of US vs UK.
- sjg007 12y ago
  Lots of very drunk people.
- DanBC 12y ago
  Glasgow is/was ridiculously violent. American surgeons who want to learn stab trauma go to Glasgow for experience. People are stabbed in the hospital. Scotland used to be the most violent nation in the developed world according to the UN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6415504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6415504 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-streets-of-scotland-britains-knife-capital-480981.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-streets-of-sc... http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/11/ukcrime.lornamartin http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/11/ukcrime.lornamarti... Things have got better over the last five years. It's still pretty bad. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22276018 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22276018

by gojomo 12y ago

omegaham 12y ago

Page 9 is the relevant graph for burglary on the Civitas pdf. The US is right in the middle. One thing I'm surprised by is the ridiculous level of assaults committed in Britain. What's going on there?

AnimalMuppet 12y ago
At the risk of being downvoted into oblivion: No guns. In the US, if you're going to assault someone, they may well be packing. It makes you think twice. But in the UK, you know they're not (with close to certainty), so the only question is whether you're tougher than them.
- omegaham 12y ago
  But a large number of other countries in Europe have similar gun control, and they don't have the assault rates that Britain does.
  - AnimalMuppet 12y ago
    Ah, true. I was only thinking of US vs UK.
sjg007 12y ago
Lots of very drunk people.
DanBC 12y ago
Glasgow is/was ridiculously violent. American surgeons who want to learn stab trauma go to Glasgow for experience. People are stabbed in the hospital. Scotland used to be the most violent nation in the developed world according to the UN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6415504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6415504 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-streets-of-scotland-britains-knife-capital-480981.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-streets-of-sc... http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/11/ukcrime.lornamartin http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/11/ukcrime.lornamarti... Things have got better over the last five years. It's still pretty bad. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22276018 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22276018