Dear England, Please take US back!

[badgenome]

crissindahouse said:

badgenome said:

sethnintendo said:

Going by murder rate the US has a pretty good lead on the UK

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Other violent crimes I am sure we are ahead of also.

Murder rate, but not in terms of overall violent crime. Unless things have changed in the past few years, which I doubt they have given the fact that the US crime rate keeps falling.

which numbers did they use for these statistics? did they just use numbers every country releases as "violent crime" or did they make the own statistics to be sure every number as exactly the same kind of violence as "violent crime"?

I'm not sure how it's accounted for in the other EU countries or in South Africa, but the US and UK have similar defintions of "violent crime". Since they can directly compare murder and assault rates, it would seem they know what specific kinds of violence are being committed. And, of course, the UK still has a lower murder rate than the US and certainly South Africa.