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The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.

By James Slack
UPDATED: 18:14 EST, 2 July 2009

Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.

The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.
Britain even has a worse violence rate than South Africa

Britain has an even worse violence rate than South Africa (file picture)

The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.

In the decade following the party's election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million - or more than two every minute.

The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission and United Nations, also show:

    The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
    It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
    The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU.
    It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France.

But it is the naming of Britain as the most violent country in the EU that is most shocking. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.

In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.



The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This is a damning indictment of this government's comprehensive failure over more than a decade to tackle the deep rooted social problems in our society, and the knock on effect on crime and anti-social behaviour.

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This is a damning indictment of this government's comprehensive failure over more than a decade to tackle the deep rooted social problems in our society, and the knock on effect on crime and anti-social behaviour.

Exactly.  The government is NOT and NEVER is the solution. 

You cannot control morality and personal choices.  Until Minority Report becomes a reality, you will not stop crimes from happening, and pressing your judicial finger on the non-actions of law-abiding citizens only leads to a worse quality of life which breeds criminal activity. 

But the "progressive lefts" that are arguing for ludicrously strict and/or total banishment of gun rights probably look at those statistics and say, "Well, if you are robbed, at least you weren't murdered."  Or "rape is a horrible crime that our academic psychologists are trying to cure, but at least 20 school children weren't massacred once every 100 years." 

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Exactly.  The government is NOT and NEVER is the solution. 

You cannot control morality and personal choices.  Until Minority Report becomes a reality, you will not stop crimes from happening, and pressing your judicial finger on the non-actions of law-abiding citizens only leads to a worse quality of life which breeds criminal activity. 

But the "progressive lefts" that are arguing for ludicrously strict and/or total banishment of gun rights probably look at those statistics and say, "Well, if you are robbed, at least you weren't murdered."  Or "rape is a horrible crime that our academic psychologists are trying to cure, but at least 20 school children weren't massacred once every 100 years."

Your thinking that gov't isn't the answer to all of society's ills makes you abby normal. What is wrong with you?