The most violent countries - Europe - Think the USA has the most violent crimes?

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Let's see. Your embassy over here says that the current violent crime rate in the US is 20 crimes per 1000 citizens.: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm

The police in the UK registered 1,158,957 violent crimes in 2007 . http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/por...lent_crime.pdf
1,158,957 divided by 60,578,000 people equals in a rate of: 0.0191316 cases per citizen or 19.1316 cases per 1000 citizens.

As the European police report indicates the UK numbers are outstandingly high in western Europe. In countries like Germany with strict weapon restrictions the crime rate is much lower. We have only 217,923 crimes for ca. 82,000,000 people equalling in a crime rate of 2,6 violent crimes per 1000 people.

Firearms are allowed in Germany. Not even cops can take their firearms home in the UK. BTW, where is Germany on this list?

-S