Subj : [ANSI] Re: Law abiding citizens?
To   : Gregory Deyss
From : Mike Miller
Date : Wed Jun 22 2022 23:38:59


   Hello Gregory!

22 Jun 22 21:39, you wrote to Bjorn Felten:

 GD> On 22 Jun 2022, Bjorn Felten said the following...

 GD> I respect you to a point, because you have been in the Fidonet scene a
 GD> long time.  That I wanted to say, but I will also say that you might
 GD> want to take your act someplace else.

 GD> Source:
 GD> https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/crime-rate-by-count
 GD> ry Ranking Country        Crime Index 2022 Population

 GD> 54      Sweden         48           10,218,971
 GD> 56      United States  47.81       334,805,269

 GD> Oh my, say it is not so, a tiny piss ant country like Sweden has that
 GD> much crime?

 GD> The United States about 22 times bigger then Sweden.
 GD> United States is approx. 9,833,517 sq km, while Sweden is
 GD> approx.450,295 sq km making Sweden only 4.58% the size of the United
 GD> States.


 4.58% of the size, with 3.05% of the population. Those rankings are per capita.

"Overall crime rate is calculated by dividing the total number of reported crimes of any kind by the total population, then multiplying the result by 100,000 (because crime rate is typically reported as X number of crimes per 100,000 people)."

As always, the devil is in the details.  Sweden's definition of rape is extremely broad, and there is a lot of support there for victims, which leads to a much higher rate of reporting.  I know women here in the US that were raped and never reported it because going through the process of being questioned, tested, and testifying can be just as traumatic, or even more-so.


Even so,  The USA's Homicide rate is 4.36, while Sweden's is 1.08.  Serious Assault is 246.84 to 47.22.

That's all from your magic website.



Mike


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