Gun crime rate, yes, but knife, assault, drug crimes? In those regards, you sir/madam are correct.
Best documentary (though i can't stand him) that outlines this is Bowling For Columbine, wherein he describes the role of the panic-inducing media in gun violence.
I read a bit of research awhile back that showed that the police in England purposely misreport violent crimes as something else in order to show low rates. For instance they might report an armed robbery as "trespassing", or a domestic assault as "disturbing the peace".
I had it on hardcopy for a paper I wrote but I haven't been able to find a lot of my research.
Then keep looking cause I call this utter bullshit until you a) find it, b) it suggests this was a systemic problem and not isolated incidents and c) this actually applies to HOMICIDE, which this is about in the first place, meaning they would disguise a homicide as trespassing or whatnot, like you suggested.
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UK homicide rate*: 0,9
Canada homicide rate*: 1,4.
United States homicide rate*: 3,9
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Number of countries with a comparable type of society with equal or higher rate of intentional homicide like the USA: Zero (0).
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* Homicide rate defined as number of intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, so please don't come with "The USA have more inhabitants than blah blah". NOT distinguished by means of homicide, so no matter if people are stabbed, strangled or shot.
"Best documentary (though i can't stand him) that outlines this is Bowling For Columbine, wherein he describes the role of the panic-inducing media in gun violence." - I agree. It appears the USA are the one civilized country with the highest level of fear. Combine this with extremely easy access to a wide range of guns, this is how to become homicide champion of the free and civilized world.
Dude we should meet irl. You need smacked!
Anyway, let's play your little game; POST YOUR SOURCES!
Are you really so brain-washed as to believe there is no way in hell a government, any government, would lie to its people?!??? Is it so hard for you to fathom that maybe, just maybe, the Brits would try to control the narrative so as to control their people?
They are not the only country to do so by a long shot. America does it, and I'd bet dollars to pesos every other "free" country does as well.
As to your demand I produce sources: fuck you. You first. Why should I blindly accept your premise and scramble to prove mine? Btw nice to hear from you again!
Wow, perhaps your issues run deeper than I thought. A normal person would take an invitation for a "smack" as the "joke" it was. Don't worry princess, I won't hurt you. ;-)
Anyway, I'm at a loss as to how you think my returning YOUR request for sources means I "ain't got jack shit", but I commend you for producing something. I have never heard of your source, so please give me time to look at it and try to find the sources I have gathered over the last few years. I'll admit before hand that the info upon which I based the last paper I wrote is now a couple years old, so I will check for updates too.
Ok. Now that I downloaded the PDF I see it is from the UN. They are openly and notoriously anti-gun, and everything they do and say on the subject is slanted. They don't even try to hide it.
Before you go off on a rant here, I am not rejecting it out of hand; I will read it and post contradictory evidence.
Ummm. Yeah it is because read the original post. And anyway, how are most murders committed (according to the gun phobes)? And name ONE person, news outlet, or organization that has ever talked about violent crime and not blamed guns. So yes, Virginia, there is a Gunban Clause.
But fine, if you only want to look at murders committed with rocks, then I will say that the UN is blatantly anti-America as well.
But as I said, in plain English, in words that I thought you would be able to comprehend: I am not rejecting it out of hand and will look at it when I have a moment or three.
"But fine, if you only want to look at murders committed with rocks, then I will say that the UN is blatantly anti-America as well. " - That's so conforming to my expectations, it's kind of amazing. But then - you're probably not the most complex and bewildering character out here.
How does one (1) article in a digital fishwrapper (its NOT a newspaper, same as Fox News isn't a news channel) of 2009 "prove" any our generalized bullshit? I get it that you think it does. But it doesn't. Its dealing with figures from one (1) precinct with 479 cases. Even the third paragraph of this pointless tabloid teaser says: "If the findings are repeated across all forces, it would mean..". "If" and "Would" being the keywords here. The article is featuring a __lot_ of those, spiced up with a couple of "seems to" as well.
Look a little further for the sources of your "paper" cause you'd probably had better sources than this.
But of course any source that dare contradict your higher intelligence is illegitimate.
How about you just admit that you are a bigoted hater and we'll call it a day.
Its a bullshit tabloid page and doesn't even indicate your claim "that the police in England purposely misreport violent crimes as something else in order to show low rates". You said "THE police". There is a very big difference between "THE" police and "some police forces". The latter is found in every country, including the USA.
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Honestly: isn't is sort of embarrassing to be in a discussion with a non-native speaker in your own mother tongue and suck like that?
Strictly for the benefit of anyone with sense who may read this thread, I will respond... Again. *Sigh*
I'm honestly at a loss to understand your inability to comprehend plain English. You seem to type it well enough, I assume you can read it as well. I don't give a flying fornication just what EXACT words differ from the article to my post: any police are "the police" to normal human beings. And besides I NEVER asserted anything at all, much less did I say that EVERY police officer in the entire UK lie on reports. (Or whatever incoherent thoughts are running through your head here). I said that I read a research report that concluded as much. Thus, this article, which was only one of several I found in just a couple seconds, backs that research paper.
"any police are "the police" to normal human beings" - Yea, right, like foreigners, christians, republicans, men, women.
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Seriously, are you still having fun doing this and getting this done to you? I mean, this is a place to have fun, isn't it?
In Canada there is an approximate 31 guns per 100 people. In America there is an approximate of 89 guns per 100 people. Therefore Canada has far fewer guns so this post is unfounded
Best documentary (though i can't stand him) that outlines this is Bowling For Columbine, wherein he describes the role of the panic-inducing media in gun violence.
I had it on hardcopy for a paper I wrote but I haven't been able to find a lot of my research.
.
UK homicide rate*: 0,9
Canada homicide rate*: 1,4.
United States homicide rate*: 3,9
.
Number of countries with a comparable type of society with equal or higher rate of intentional homicide like the USA: Zero (0).
.
* Homicide rate defined as number of intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, so please don't come with "The USA have more inhabitants than blah blah". NOT distinguished by means of homicide, so no matter if people are stabbed, strangled or shot.
Anyway, let's play your little game; POST YOUR SOURCES!
Are you really so brain-washed as to believe there is no way in hell a government, any government, would lie to its people?!??? Is it so hard for you to fathom that maybe, just maybe, the Brits would try to control the narrative so as to control their people?
They are not the only country to do so by a long shot. America does it, and I'd bet dollars to pesos every other "free" country does as well.
As to your demand I produce sources: fuck you. You first. Why should I blindly accept your premise and scramble to prove mine? Btw nice to hear from you again!
My source: http://www.unodc.org/documents/gsh/pdfs/2014_GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_BOOK_web.pdf
But yea, of course "they" are lying.
Anyway, I'm at a loss as to how you think my returning YOUR request for sources means I "ain't got jack shit", but I commend you for producing something. I have never heard of your source, so please give me time to look at it and try to find the sources I have gathered over the last few years. I'll admit before hand that the info upon which I based the last paper I wrote is now a couple years old, so I will check for updates too.
Before you go off on a rant here, I am not rejecting it out of hand; I will read it and post contradictory evidence.
But fine, if you only want to look at murders committed with rocks, then I will say that the UN is blatantly anti-America as well.
But as I said, in plain English, in words that I thought you would be able to comprehend: I am not rejecting it out of hand and will look at it when I have a moment or three.
I haven't found the research I referenced, but here is an article from a British newspaper that proves what I said about violent crime in England.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222138/Crime-figures-One-violent-incidents-classified-police-crime.html
Look a little further for the sources of your "paper" cause you'd probably had better sources than this.
How about you just admit that you are a bigoted hater and we'll call it a day.
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Honestly: isn't is sort of embarrassing to be in a discussion with a non-native speaker in your own mother tongue and suck like that?
I'm honestly at a loss to understand your inability to comprehend plain English. You seem to type it well enough, I assume you can read it as well. I don't give a flying fornication just what EXACT words differ from the article to my post: any police are "the police" to normal human beings. And besides I NEVER asserted anything at all, much less did I say that EVERY police officer in the entire UK lie on reports. (Or whatever incoherent thoughts are running through your head here). I said that I read a research report that concluded as much. Thus, this article, which was only one of several I found in just a couple seconds, backs that research paper.
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Seriously, are you still having fun doing this and getting this done to you? I mean, this is a place to have fun, isn't it?
DON'T FUCK WITH FREEDOM SON!
Smells like...
*Breathes deeply*
Freedom!