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Kasz216 on 08 February 2013
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brendude13 said:
Kasz216 said:

I'd argue that impressions are deceiving.

However, though it makes me wonder... why you assume there is a problem in the US then.  If the ways crimes are reported is a worry.

I assume that the violent crime rate would be high in the US than the countries I mentioned because of what I've seen in the media and what I've heard from people who've been there. I'd also expect the violent crime rate to be somewhat proportional to the high homicide rate.


You mistunderstand.  Homicide is like Violent Crime.  It's something that puts together multiple crimes into one specific crime.  In the US it includes among other things Murder, manslaughter, wrongful deaths, self defense killings and deaths who can't been conclusivly solved as deaths.


Therefore, any reporting fears you have one should be the same for the other.  Which would leave you with nothing but anectdote to base your opinion on.