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Make that 700,000 - if you measure against the total number of households (or population) the rate is pretty close. About 1 in 50 homes is burgled in a year in UK and 1 in 45 by your numbers in the...

Very effective at detecting minor street crimes and provides admissible court evidence in the event of one. If you had your camera snatched in London, chances are the police could identify and...

No. Most reliable data is based on a like for like assessment, but there are no standard definitions for many crimes, including assault. Rape, murder, burglary and robbery are pretty standard...

Different definitions of assault. Many forms of assault in the US are counted as misdemeanors. Every credible site will point out the difficulty of comparing the two between each country and the...

By the law of averages it appears to be you that has the problem fitting in.

What states do not allow you to keep a gun at home for home protection?What you don't seem to grasp is that the UK has almost no guns yet the robbery rate (which includes assault) is pretty much...

Not according to the statistics.

Actually, "inhearitnly racisist" :-) I think its Albanian. Or even Hungarian. The process of observation changes that which is observed, hence you cannot photograph reality.

Me too. I will brave the dangerous, violent streets of West London armed with my umbrella and likely receive more harm to my elderly person as a result of alcohol consumption than I am likely to...

No, it doesn't matter because you still have 200 X as many gun related homicides.Daily Mail? Facts? World view. Oh please. There was a 40% increase following 1997 due to a rise in gang violence in...

Please see definition below (same as in US I believe).My point was that it is NOT a defined crime, so there are no stats relating to it. To be precise:Home invasion is the act of illegally entering...

No evidence. Please see my post below.

So Americans are 25 X as stupid as Brits then.....?

Since I cannot find a legal definition of "home invasion" I don't see how any reliable stats would be possible to derive since they rely on crime statistics.However "burglary" in both countries is...

...are completely different things.Can we start looking at what people are doing now and stop digging through the historical trash can looking for racial stereotypes.Many nations in the world...

Lets just start in 1980.We had three. The last was a shotgun spree by a man travelling around in a car, shooting selected targets.In Hungerford, no-one had ever prepared for such an emergency....

Thanks Robert, it is quite chilling.I find it quite probable that very few Germans citizens knew - most senior officers not in the SS were horrified when they found out (most hated the SS anyway)....

At least you did some checking :-) The process of observation changes that which is observed, hence you cannot photograph reality.

There you go. Simple really. I do remember trying to get to grips with it once and not quite getting there... still fun to watch though. Very tactical.

Guess we should start a team here, but you'd have to explain the rules first...