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Originally Posted by knucklesplitter
I think your perception of crime in the US is skewed, perhaps by the likes of CNN and FauxNews. The violent crime rate has been falling since the early 90's and is as low as it was when I was a kid in the early 70's. The homicide rate is the lowest it's been in since the 60's. Overall it's the safest it has been in 30 years. Even in the US you are statistically much more likely (almost 2X) to die from suicide than homicide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:U...Crime_Rate.jpg
Not sure what my point is, other than the kids are not as violent as the media portrays. |
When I said violent crimes I was talking about more then just homicide. Here is a comparison of the number of violent crimes in 1960 and 2006.
................1960.......2006
Murder:......9,110 - 17,034
Rape:........17,190 - 92,455
Robbery:..107,840 - 447,403
Assault:...154,320 - 862,947
TOTAL:....288,460 - 1,417,745
I wouldn't say thats safe.
EDIT:
If you break that down into per 100,000 citizens like I should have done, it looks like this.
.............1960....2006
murder:...5.1......5.7
Rape:......9.6......30.9
Robbery:..60.1....149.4
Assault:...86.1....287.5
2nd Edit. Like Matt said. There was a huge influx of crime in the 90s and its gone down, but its still high and seems to be climbing back up.