[extropy-chat] If the nonUS citizens voted in Nov 2 elections...

[Mike Lorrey]

So little crime is actually reported to police in europe (and so few
police actually keep track of it) that it is meaningless to go by
police reports. You need to survey the population, instead.

--- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> 
> >Property crime ranges from 3-5 times higher than the US in european
> >nations. Theft of identification is a common occurence, which is the
> >whole reason why a company like American Express came into being.
> 
> 3-5 times higher seems a really high number. It's easy to skew number
> 5
> times up or down in different statistics. In a 5-minutes Google
> search
> (pulling up what seemed official pages, but no guarantee of
> scientific
> precision) I found the following:
> 
> Auto theft:
> US     1 every 186 cars per year
> Italy  1 every 156 cars per year
> 
> Burglary:
> US    1200 cases / 100.000 people
> Italy  406 cases / 100.000 people
> 
> so auto theft seems slightly higher in Italy, while burglary seems so
> much higher in the US that I doubt the numbers.
> 
> 
> references:
> US burglary: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/burg.htm
> US person per household:
>
http://www.google.it/search?q=cache:8XhNFyRTFKQJ:www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-8.pdf+average+household+size+US&hl=it
> US car theft: http://www.iii.org/media/hottopics/insurance/test4/
> Italy burglary:
>
http://www.google.it/search?q=cache:q3JIf_50llEJ:images.vb.camcom.it/f/Varie/So/Sociale.pdf+crimini+statistiche&hl=it
> Italy car theft: http://www.targhe.org/articolo_cesc2002.html
> 
> Alfio
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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