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

[Kevin Freels]

I think you could do a decent comparison if you focused on one crime, such
as armed robbery, but it would have to be countries that were very similar.
Of course you still have the problem with some countries where the police
regularly rob the citizens. In others, they collect "bribes" which is pretty
much the same thing as armed robbery except that the victim approaches the
armed robber/police officer.

I agree that it would be kind of difficult to compare armed robbery stats
with a country where the military walks the streets and shoots people on
sight after curfew.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BillK" <pharos at gmail.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] If the nonUS citizens voted in Nov 2
elections...


> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:57:46 +0930, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:07:16 -0700 (PDT), Mike Lorrey
<mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Do you have such a survey?
> >
>
> It is almost a futile exercise to compare crime statistics between
countries.
> What is analysed as a serious crime in one country might only be
> counted as a misdemeanour in another. The circumstances and problems
> are different from country to country. Some countries have more guns
> available. Some countries have a criminal refugee problem. In some
> countries the police are corrupt. In some countries law and order has
> virtually broken down. In some countries the actual collection of
> crime figures is very dubious.
>
> Your only chance of good comparisons are where the countries are
> virtually identical, and then they will probably have identical crime
> stats as well.  :)
>
> BillK
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