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Lord_Nibiru
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I do not know the details here but there are someissues here as to thr definition of violent crime. Apparently the British definition is much broader so a lot of crimes in this category appear in British stats that woukld not appear in US numbers.
Possibly true yeah, although I should say it was the EU's stats and also mention that our government (and past ones) certainly manipulate stats to suit a particular agenda at any time.
People don't seem to feel safer now than in the past, quite the opposite and I would certainly feel safer knowing police only used weapons (guns and others) only as an absolute last resort. Sadly I've seen on many occasions that this is simply not happening and I can only assume it is their training. In my view it is not wise to disarm the public and arm the authorities at the same time.
I'd rather have neither armed personally and concentrate purely of deflective safety items to fight criminals - e.g. no criminal's gun can be a threat to a copper who is protected from head to toe so all that money pumped into developing/buying weapons should go to PPE, IMHO.