A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 25-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

You're wrong. I strongly suspect that the violent crime rate will exceed the
US's quite soon. GB's has in just a few years.

Prove it.

No problem. Here you go:

"The recorded crime figures for the third quarter of last year showed a fall
of 6 per cent in all crimes to 1.39 million. However, within the overall
fall was a rise in violent crime, including a 7 per cent increase in
violence against the person to 268,000.

Nevertheless, after a series of quarterly increases in double figures in
the number of offences involving more serious violence against the person,
the Government was relieved that between July and September 2004 there was
much smaller increase. More serious violence against the person rose by only
3 per cent to 12,000 offences.

Sexual offences rose by 22 per cent, but some of this increase is a result
of the creation of new offences, such as sexual grooming, administering a
date-rape drug and the inclusion of exposure as a sex offence rather than a
public order crime.

Recorded firearms offences rose by 5 per cent to 10,670 in the year to the
end of September 2004."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...456630,00.html

"Crime was not supposed to rise after handguns were banned in 1997. Yet,
since 1996 the serious violent crime rate has soared by 69%: robbery is up
by 45% and murders up by 54%. Before the law, armed robberies had fallen by
50% from 1993 to 1997, but as soon as handguns were banned the robbery rate
shot back up, almost back to their 1993 levels.

The 2000 International Crime Victimization Survey, the last survey done,
shows the violent-crime rate in England and Wales was twice the rate in the
U.S. When the new survey for 2004 comes out, that gap will undoubtedly have
widened even further as crimes reported to British police have since soared
by 35%, while declining 6% in the U.S."

http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/...anningguns.htm

"Britain, Australia top U.S. in violent crime

Rates Down Under increase despite strict gun-control measures

By Jon Dougherty
©*2001*WorldNetDaily.com

Law enforcement and anti-crime activists regularly claim that the United
States tops the charts in most crime-rate categories, but a new
international study says that America's former master -- Great Britain --
has much higher levels of crime.

The International Crime Victims Survey, conducted by Leiden University in
Holland, found that England and Wales ranked second overall in violent crime
among industrialized nations.

Twenty-six percent of English citizens -- roughly one-quarter of the
population -- have been victimized by violent crime. Australia led the list
with more than 30 percent of its population victimized.

The United States didn't even make the "top 10" list of industrialized
nations whose citizens were victimized by crime.

Jack Straw, the British home secretary, admitted that "levels of
victimization are higher than in most comparable countries for most
categories of crime."

Highlights of the study indicated that:

€ The percentage of the population that suffered "contact crime" in
England and Wales was 3.6 percent, compared with 1.9 percent in the United
States and 0.4 percent in Japan.

€ Burglary rates in England and Wales were also among the highest
recorded. Australia (3.9 percent) and Denmark (3.1 per cent) had higher
rates of burglary with entry than England and Wales (2.8 percent). In the
U.S., the rate was 2.6 percent, according to 1995 figures;

€ "After Australia and England and Wales, the highest prevalence of
crime was in Holland (25 percent), Sweden (25 percent) and Canada (24
percent). The United States, despite its high murder rate, was among the
middle ranking countries with a 21 percent victimization rate," the London
Telegraph said.

€ England and Wales also led in automobile thefts. More than 2.5
percent of the population had been victimized by car theft, followed by 2.1
percent in Australia and 1.9 percent in France. Again, the U.S. was not
listed among the "top 10" nations.

€ The study found that Australia led in burglary rates, with nearly
4 percent of the population having been victimized by a burglary. Denmark
was second with 3.1 percent; the U.S. was listed eighth at about 1.8
percent."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=21902

Now, what was that about recto-crainal inversions?

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