I don't like England to be honest. Everytime I go to a british news site, and talk with british people, they struck me as... well, that's it. They struck me. Mentally I mean. It feels devoid of soul, like if one of these hooded guys from Harry Potter sucked it out. I don't really know how to explain it.

I propose the immediate devolution of Britain to the celts and scattering the british between Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. Who's with me?

You wont have Hollywood without USA.

HOW DARE SOMEONE DIE!

I HATE THIS COUNTRY! SOMEONE DIED IN IT! 

(I miss Diana).

And America has had more wars than England. True dat.But everyone's screwed. That much is true

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.

Well, that settles it. Abolish the USA.

i edited my post a little bit.

just as example, they write "The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935"

and that's exactly what i was talking about in my other post, they count much  more in canada as violent crime as they do in usa, so you have to put canada and other countries lower or you have to increase the number of usa drastically. it makes no sense to compare the numbers if one country doesn't count something as violent crime and the other country does.

so they pretty much use wrong numbers at least for canada and usa in comparison:

"A comparison of crime rates between Canada and the United States is often sought by the media, researchers and
policy makers. Both countries have their own Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) survey. However, no official study on
the comparability of the crime rates resulting from these surveys has been conducted. With the recent growth of the
Internet, many unofficial crime comparisons are being performed, with very little attention paid to differences in
definitions, classification, and scoring rules.

This methodological study was undertaken to determine if police-reported crime categories could be compared
between Canada and the United States. As there are only eight “index” offences in the American UCR survey
(compared to over 100 in the Canadian UCR survey), the study was limited to examining these eight offences at the
incident level."

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85f0035x/85f0035x2001000-eng.pdf

i'm not saying usa is higher than uk, but i really doubt uk is above south africa (i was there plenty of times) and i don't believe the other european countries count so less to violent crime as usa does but yeah, i don't know it.

Why is it a bad thing? You should only be against it if you like to not be caught up to no good. Shouldn't it be a safer invironment with more cameras. Seriously unless your a serial rapist or the town paedo then you shouldnt care about the amount of cameras there are. I have nothing to hide so the big brother can keep watching me.

That is grade A BS logic in my eyes. It's not whether someone has something to hide, it's respecting other people's privacy. The government should never have that much power. The government is getting too strong everywhere. They try to tell us how to live and I'm sick of it. Now they want to tell me what to buy too. It's BS.

England come low down in murder but has one of the highest crime rate? That doesnt add up to me. Surely there must be different levels that each country considers something a crime. There is no way that England as a similar crime rate to the US. Higher crime rate to South Africa? no frikkin way. Have you seen the South African Police. Theyre a waste of time and corupt. And they dont give a crap about the poor. So if a poor guy got assaulted in south africa, i bet that doesnt go down as a crime. Same goes for a lot of the countries.

I just want to clarify the whole CCTV camera thing.

It's really not that bad. It makes you feel safer, if anything, and it's non-intrusive. It's only there for safety, and most of the time it isn't even turned on, or deleted immediately. It's certainly a non-issue, unlike what the press would have you believe...