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| For future reference: Australia and Canada have more violent crimes than America, data reveals |
| 2026-07-12 |
[HotAir] It's true that America has a murder rate higher than our peers, but the picture changes dramatically when you look at Even in murder stats, the overall picture is quite different than you would suppose. Regarding homicide, the most heinous crime of all, it’s true that in 2025, the U.S. murder rate was about four per 100,000 people — roughly twice Australia’s and Canada’s 2024 homicide rate. Yet it’s also true that homicides account for only a tiny fraction of And those murders are, for the most part, gang-related and concentrated heavily in tiny percentages of cities measured in blocks, where gangs fight over disputed territory. Murders in the U.S. are usually highly concentrated geographically, often connected to street gang activity, and threaten only a tiny fraction of Americans. Just 2% of counties account for approximately 54% of all murders, and within those counties roughly two-thirds of killings occur within areas covering only about ten city blocks. By contrast, 53% of U.S. counties report no murders in a typical year, while another 16% report only one. There's no doubt that it would be great to lower that murder rate as much as possible, but the problem exists mainly because the criminal justice system refuses to jail felons who have long rap sheets. That's why most murders you hear about are committed by people with dozens of felony arrests. It's time to impeach some judges and boot lax prosecutors to solve that problem. There's not much you can do to reduce the rate of murders by people who snap. But what about the other 99.8% of It turns out that Australia, for instance, has vastly higher rates of assaults, robbery, rape, and break-ins than the United States. Because police statistics capture only a fraction of actual crime, the U.S., Canada, and Australia all conduct large-scale victimization surveys that estimate total crime, including incidents never reported to police. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has conducted the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which interviews roughly 240,000 Americans annually, for more than 50 years. Australia relies on a comparable survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, while Statistics Canada conducts the General Social Survey (GSS) on Safety and Victimization. "Anyone who wants to understand the seriousness of crime in Canada needs to recognize that victimization surveys paint a more complete picture than police-reported crime," said Gary Mauser, who has extensively studied crime at Simon Fraser University in Canada. The gap between police statistics and actual victimization is substantial. In Canada, the police-reported Australia shows a similar pattern. Although the state of Victoria did not provide assault data to the ABS, only about 37% of robberies and sexual assaults were reported to police in 2024. The U.S. data tell a very different story. Although the FBI does not collect national counts of simple assault, it recorded 1,203,808 Using these broad estimates, Australia’s rape and sexual assault rate is roughly three times higher than that of the United States. Australia’s assault rate is about twice as high, and its burglary rate is about 2.5 times higher. Robbery is the only category where the two countries report similar rates. But even this Australian data significantly understates the extent of Our That wouldn't eliminate gang violence, but it would reduce it. Throw in "broken windows" policing, and you won't "solve" the insolvable (some people will always commit crimes because it is human nature), but it would reduce crime rates and increase overall safety. Constitutional carry laws could serve as a deterrent to criminals who view robbery as an easy crime. Florida saw crime rates fall dramatically as more people carried guns, since few people are willing to risk their lives for $50. There is no "solution" to crime, although we do know that high-trust societies tend to have much lower crime rates than low-trust ones. Until they opened their borders to |
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