Weiser says:
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I would not choose to be one of the twenty five percent of Brits who
are
victimized and traumatized by crime every year....
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I concur, neither would I.

But, as you well know, crime statistics are not easily compared. What
may be recorded as a "crime" in Britain, may be recorded as a nuisance
in Canada or the USA. I don't know, and neither do you. If we're to
talk about "violent crimes" and incidents of "violent crime", then we
need to ensure that we're talking about the same thing in each country.
To date, everything that I've read indicates that people much more
knowledgeable and you or I are grappling with these comparisons.

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