The Most Violent Country in Europe: Britain is Also Worse Than South Africa and U.S.
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.
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.
‘We’re now on our fourth Home Secretary this parliament, and all we are getting is a rehash of old initiatives that didn’t work the first time round. More than ever Britain needs a change of direction.’
The figures, compiled by the Tories, are considered the most accurate and up-to-date available.
But criminologists say crime figures can be affected by many factors, including different criminal justice systems and differences in how crime is reported and measured.
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These are five-year old figures. The latest real figures for the year to September 2012 show crime at an all-time low. These figures were compiled by the then Conservative opposition as a stick with which to beat the Labour government, and like any stats compiled by a political party the world over, even then they stank.
But now there is the debate on gun-control in the US, and these figures are suddenly resurrected – tho they were dead to start with.
Anyway, for a population of 56.1 million, we had 549 homicides. Think how much lower it would be if we had as many guns as the US.
Can we now conclude that strict gun control in the UK does NOT work? So what makes the U.S. liberals think outlawing guns will make a safer society? if you want a safer society through legislative action, my liberal friends, why not make laws that require arm amputations. It is difficult to shoot, stab or beat someone if you have no arms. All sarcasm aside, you CAN NOT legislate doing the right thing.
Well to many muslims there. So no surprise.