This wasn't really a surprise to me, personally. I think the UK has issues with crime, yes, but America has a lot more gang violence. I wasn't sure if this really counted as Polidicks or SH, but Trump's of course involved, so it felt a little more sensible here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44807271
The relevant bit:
The figures are pretty clear. In the first six months of this year, there were 80 homicides in London, including one in the City of London which has its own police force.
Over the same period in New York there were 141 homicides - 61 more than London.
As the year has gone on, the initial monthly homicide figures have been updated, as some cases turn out to be non-suspicious deaths and are re-categorised. What that shows is that February was the only month where there were more killings in London (18) than in New York (14): it was indeed a blip.
It is difficult to pinpoint the reason for these kinds of anomalies , but one factor could be the heavy snow in New York in February which has traditionally been linked with reduced violent crime.
What's also noticeable is that since the spike in killings in London in February, the numbers have dropped steadily month-by-month, after the Met established a violent crime task force and stepped up patrols and weapons searches in hotspot areas.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/242634/b26d4340-8578-4bcd-9246-6a6581e8b27a/_102495366_chart-londonnewyorkmurder-uvwmq-nc.png
New York also has one of the lowest crime rates of any major US city, and by a fairly wide margin. Saint Louis, the highest ranking city in violent crime per capita, has over three times as many violent crimes per person as New York City, for example.So, basically, the UK's most dangerous city is still considerably better off than one of America's least dangerous major cities, and it doesn't even come fuckin' close to our most dangerous cities..
But I need a gun to protect my family
I'm not actually sure if London is our most dangerous city per capita. It may very well be, but I bet Birmingham and Liverpool are quite bad too, relative to London, I mean.
tbh its more of a comparison of each country's most important city/most populous city.
I know that, but comparisons based on sentimentality are not all that useful - it's better to have perspective on the data. That's not to say that it's meaningless; I'm just arguing that there's some additional complexity here.
I mean that's all well and good, but what about the deaths inside the No-Go zones? Everyone knows the Police won't go there, and nobody knows where the bodies go. If we mobilised our Army we might be able to secure Croydon, and hopefully we could use the Death Rates there as a basis to figure out how many people those fucking muzzies are honour-killing every day.
So go on holiday to NYC in February, got it.
I recently visited NYC and was very surprised to find out clean and safe it was.
NYC?
Clean?
Safe?
By what standards? Like honestly, every time I go there I need to pack clothes pins to keep my nose shut.
I like your Yoda impression, but I'm confused by your post on multiple levels, I must admit.
Boots on the ground in Croydon would be Britain's Vietnam. Just fucking wipe them off the map
Compared to LA, the closest city to me.
Croyden is the only acceptable use of nuclear weapons.
Lets just calmly tipex that area of the map and pretend it never existed.
NYC is also disgustingly population dense, which I imagine has a large role in crime
I recently went on a trip in america coast to coast and can confirm that NYC was one of the nicest places I visited. Almost every other city had a huge problem with homeless people and begging. There were still homeless in NYC of course but in, for example, Salt Lake City, there were security guards outside every public place whose sole duty it seemed was to keep the swathes of homeless out. I'd never seen anything like it.
Could've swore New York was a gun control state.
In a non gun control country, so that doesn't matter much
What's the point you're making? You went there and didn't die, so the graph in the OP is wrong?
I think they were just making an observation that NYC isn’t nearly as bad as some other cities in the country.
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