Stephen:
> Don't get too inferior sensing - many a zone in the Bay Area likes the
> sounds of its firearms - or a percentage therein doth!
Right -- and if we're thinking of the same report, it focused on the chances
of being beaten-up rather than murdered in a developed industrial society.
(And guns apart, that leaves aside the horrendous statistics for US traffic
deaths.)
But ... Nevertheless, the statistics for Scotland put this at twice as high
as England, and the latter about double USAmerica (Canada is lighter).
Also, as far as I can make out, the methodology was based on perceived crime
rather than documented crime, which makes a hell of a lot of sense -- you're
much more likely to report it if you're mugged in Morningside, a middle
class suburb of Edinburgh, than if the same thing happens in what was once
the Gorbals.
Nevertheless, it's just a trifle odd that both Scotland and England both
score quite *so* badly -- that you're twice as likely to be duffed up in
London as in New York.
I'm tempted to sat this is totally counter-intuitive, but having walked
through a mugging set-up in Florence with a Significant Other who was
brought-up on the New York streets, and the minute we exited from the alley
and when we stopped shaking, we howled with laughter ...
Well, I'm prepared to believe anything here.
Did you manage to get past the newspaper fluff to the actual UN Report,
Stephen? I didn't.
... but thinking about it, it made appalling sense.
Robin
> Right now, I gather,
> we do most of this kind of stuff collectively and abroad - Iraq, etc. Good
> training too. 3000 dead in the WTC and 100,000 in Iraq. I don't even
think
> Jonathan Swift is that Swift.
>
> Stephen V
Different issue.
R.
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