More British households have been victims of crime than American or Canadian. And North Americans have more confidence that police would protect them from violent crime than Britons.
In the UK, there has been argument about crime statistics for many years. Governments like to talk about reported crime statistics. But then a lot of crime goes unreported. Crime surveys, like these, reveal that the true level of crime is higher.
It will be interesting to see what our own Crime and Safety Survey 2006 produces.
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The widespread belief that the UK has little crime and is safe and the US has a lot of crime and is dangerous is slowly starting to unravel. The banning of private ownership of firearms after the Dunblaine shootings resulted in a huge increase in violent crimes in the UK. But you will find little mention of this in the mainstream media.
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