"Ed Huntress" wrote:

[Gunner said]:

Interesting..not what Interpol claims:
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/004236.html

Here are Interpol 2001 crime statistics (rate per 100,000):
4161 - US
7736 - Germany
6941 - France
9927 - England and Wales

Thus the US has a substantially lower crime rate than the major
European countries!


Ah, Gunner, no. You need a better class of blogs. g

Here's where those figures came from:

http://www.interpol.int/Public/Stati...wnloadList.asp

If you compare a few countries, you'll see that entire categories are
missing from some, and there are big differences in how they report the
rest. Interpol doesn't say these are crime comparisons. They say "Total
number of offences *contained in national crime statistics*." (emphasis
mine)

In other words, Gunner, just as before....the idiot makes some
bull**** claim, gets proven wrong by the cited numbers and goes off on
some fantasy bull**** argument about what the numbers "really" say.

More semantic bull**** from the bull**** master.

"Interpol doesn't say these are crime comparisons. They say "Total
number of offences *contained in national crime statistics*."
(emphasis
mine)"

Can anyone that's not an idiot interpret that sentence above as the
idiot has?

I doubt it.

ral