[Aramike]

In the end the increase doesn't matter at all. It's the total that matters.

This answer is flawed. The original argument, along with your subsequent rebuttal, both mentioned movement in a certain direction ("going the way of"). Increase/decrease is movement. Totals are not.

I'd much rather live in a country with a high increase and lower rate than the other way around. Much safer living

"Much" safer living ... for now.

Personally, I'd prefer to be in a safe neighborhood in a nation with a higher crime rate which is either static or on the decline than in an unsafe neighborhood in a country with a lower crime rate showing explosive growth.

Furthermore, this is a counter-point directed at Bubblehead1980 with his claim the US is supposedly better than Denmark. It isn't necessarily directed at the author of the article.

Your counter point is invalid as Bubblehead said nothing about the US being better than Denmark but rather not wanting "the US to go this way".

Quite frankly I don't want the US to go that way either, and using crime as an example, I'd prefer to avoid such an explosive growth in the rates.

Even if the data is collected in different ways, this cannot account for all of the huge differences.

Maybe I should use large, run-on sentences rather than paragraphs because if you're going to attempt to break down each sentence without the context, we're going to get no where.

I'm pretty sure I followed that statement with one mentioning other contributing factors.

We are not discussing the crime rates here. It's just a quick fact I mentioned. I could provide huge walls of text with it, but for the sake of readability that's generally not considered desirable.

Kind of odd a statement to make considering that your original rebuttal centered on that topic.

The exact reason why there's more crime in the US than in Denmark is not important for us to know.

You believe that a better crime prevention tool would be to bury your head in the sand?

Fact is there's simply much less in Denmark, and thus I cannot see how Bubblehead1980 can possibly claim US social systems are so much better than the Danish ones.

How long do you think Denmark will have a much lower crime rate than the US, considering it's amazing growth? Forever?

When something grows disproportionately to a certain benchmark, it tends to surpass it, unless your math shows something completely different I'm unaware of.