Yea crazy. There definitely weren't 261 stabbing homicides in England last year. And my car wasn't broken into every other month in Rome. Nope. Just a USA thing. Everywhere else is a heaven.
which state, with lots of asterisks about why this comparison is difficult and likely not telling the complete story, that:
>For England and Wales, we added together three crime categories: "violence against the person, with injury," "most serious sexual crime," and "robbery." This produced a rate of 775 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
>For the United States, we used the FBI’s four standard categories for violent crime that Bier cited. We came up with a rate of 383 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
