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<blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 305800" data-attributes="member: 5328">Congratulations. That's very good by US standards. But the town where I grew up (20,000 population) has had only five murders in the past twenty years. Sixteen years out of twenty we have no murders at all. And Kempsey has a high crime rate by Australian standards. Furthermore Australia has a high rate of violent crime by the standards of the First World. What strikes you as extraordinarily peaceful is everyday expectation for people from most First-World countries.To put your experience in context, I suggest that you turn to the <a href="http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/" target="_blank">Bureau of Justice Statistics web-page</a> provided by the US DoJ. The crime rates in the USA are plummetting fantastically, but they still are nowhere near as low as most European countries. A situation that seems wonderful to Americans who remember American cities fifteen yeaers ago still seems bad to most Europeans.Meanwhile, here in Australia, the homicide rate continues what it has been for two hundred years. It was unaffected by the government's very expensive 'Guns Buyback'. But the rate of other violent crimes has been rising alarmingly since the guns buyback, and if trends continue Australia's rate of non-homicide violent crimes will soon exceed that of the USA. Regards,Agback</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Agback, post: 305800, member: 5328"] Congratulations. That's very good [i]by US standards[/i]. But the town where I grew up (20,000 population) has had only five murders in the past twenty years. Sixteen years out of twenty we have no murders at all. And Kempsey has a [i]high[/i] crime rate by Australian standards. Furthermore Australia has a high rate of violent crime by the standards of the First World. What strikes you as extraordinarily peaceful is [i]everyday expectation[/i] for people from most First-World countries. To put your experience in context, I suggest that you turn to the [URL=http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/]Bureau of Justice Statistics web-page[/URL] provided by the US DoJ. The crime rates in the USA are plummetting fantastically, but they still are nowhere near as low as most European countries. A situation that seems wonderful to Americans who remember American cities fifteen yeaers ago still seems bad to most Europeans. Meanwhile, here in Australia, the homicide rate continues what it has been for two hundred years. It was unaffected by the government's very expensive 'Guns Buyback'. But the rate of other violent crimes has been rising alarmingly since the guns buyback, and if trends continue Australia's rate of non-homicide violent crimes will soon exceed that of the USA. Regards, Agback [/QUOTE]

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