Posted: Mar 12, 2018 6:00 pm
Warren Dew wrote:OlivierK wrote:Well, I haven't read the whole thread, but I did read the post where you made similar claims, and also the one where you got schooled on them, and I note that you didn't return to that thread after that.
The second post you link to basically repeated previous assertions while failing actually to refute any of my points. It even admits that the UK rate of violent crime is six times higher if you go by the government categories that it criticizes me for not using.
You seem to think that whoever posts last, wins. I can understand that if the arguments are too involved for you to follow, but I'm not interested in posting just for the sake of getting the last word in.
What?
Like it is not hard to understand that the UK categorizes more things as violent crime than the US does. Therefore it is not surprising that the UK reports a higher violent crime statistic than the US.
The UK's statistics and the US' statistics are not directly comparable so saying the UK has 6 times the violent crime rate as the US is simply not true by any objective measure. You can say the UK reports a violent crime rate that is 6 times greater than the US reports violent crime, but that is not the same as saying violent crime is higher in the UK.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... violent-c/
It is quite easy to use google and get a plethora of articles debunking that concept.