03-07-2008, 04:56 AM
Quote:Why does Canada have 2.5x the rate of rapes per capita of the US? And almost 20x the rate of Colombia, a country whose overall rate of violent crime is unsurpassed?Well, Yeah. Consider the source. Your tax dollars at work... Not.
I think there are probably some serious reporting issues, although probably moreso with rapes than murders. Still, Saudi Arabia is suspiciously low. And I definitely doubt that Azerbaijan has 1/100th of the per-capita murders of the US.
Also, for a lark, the total crimes by country is a fun number. The US has almost as many total crimes commited as all those countries combined? I think not. There's some definite apples-to-oranges going on.
-Jester