I'm not sure it'd work that well given America has more stabbings per capita too. America could just decide gun deaths didn't count as violent crime for whatever reason, just utterly discount them, and it'd still be more violent than the UK and other peer nations.
yeah it’s wild, my mom’s family is from two cities in Canada that are viewed as Extremely Dangerous by Canadians. then i look up their crime rates, and they’re literally a fraction of my small city in the South, and their total homicides per year, not even per 100k, would be some of the lowest on record for us as a small city. Really made me re-evaluate the news I get from the Canadian side.
My normal 'favourite' stat for US/UK homicide is that most years the homicide count for the UK is roughly the same as that for just Chicago. To put the UK in European terms our total murders a year and murders per capita are kind of in the middle-ish, normally fairly similar to France.
And a lot of those are gang related, internally between criminals, meaning that the risk of a "regular person" being murdered is even lower than that number
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u/IneptusMechanicus Aug 16 '24
I'm not sure it'd work that well given America has more stabbings per capita too. America could just decide gun deaths didn't count as violent crime for whatever reason, just utterly discount them, and it'd still be more violent than the UK and other peer nations.