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http://www.flickr.com/photos/9061703@N03/4330808883/
Have link, it says there's a copyright or some shit so I'm not posting picture.
Juan: that image is the most adorable thing ever
i don't know why i made this
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^^ You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
I don't get it.
You aren't meant to. There is nothing to "get". Just enjoy the sheer absurdity.
That post apparently broke the page so I just deleted it.
...am I the only one for whom this page is completely fucked up?
Now I wanna see the Back Room!
>Total Crimes
Um...why would you count stuff as totals and not per capita?
the back room is just where we take bad posters who ask too many questions and try to learn things that they were not meant to know
What post broke stuff?
^^^ Because that would fuck up the whole thing.
It was one of mine. All I did was quote a couple people and reply, and it broke the page.
I deleted the post and it stopped.
^^Yeah, but if you have to misrepresent facts to make a point, it's possible that you're overcommitted to making the point.
^Huh. That's...odd.
^ The USA not even being in the top ten would make the whole thing look a little silly, though.
It would. Hence my "overcommitted to making the point."
Actually, those would all be pretty silly if they were using "per capita"
IIRC our per capita violent crime rates are still consistently high compared to the rest of the developed world on the whole, but we're #1 in rather few of them individually. Like, the UK is higher in burglary, etc., France (or something) topped out rape, etc. I think we're highest in firearm injuries for obvious reasons.
I mean to address that picture specifically, the US doesn't even rank on this list's top 50 when you switch it to per capita.
But if we are just going by total numbers, well of course things are going to skew to the US since it has a lot more people than most countries. You'd need per capita for meaningful numbers to compare.
^^^Well, most of them would. Pretty sure we actually do have a really high imprisonment rate.
You would except that, with their population, countries like China and India would be on top. Only goes to prove that there is something fundamentally wrong in the western systems.
I'm pretty sure the crime statistics for China are falsified. I mean, they got to #2 in terms of imprisonment rate somehow.
I heard somewhere once that crime rates in graphs and stuff are generally more indicative of how active the police are and how willing people are to report crimes than of how many crimes are actually being committed, which seem like two very different things? I don't remember where I heard that though, so feel free to ignore me.
Not to mention that "crime" includes stuff like parking violations and jaywalking.
That too.
We're not even on the list for highest murders per capita.
Yeah, crime alternately gets displayed based on estimated total incidences, how many end up reported to police, how many the government feels like reporting, or even just how many make it all the way to conviction. Naturally, all of them have serious issues and get used to make certain countries look better at certain times.
Like, Japan will have artificially low crime rates in a lot of sources because they only bother prosecuting and reporting cases with a surefire conviction to cut legal costs. America will have artificially low rates because a lot of it never makes it to the police at all. And so on.
And of course you kind of have to eyeball-filter out perpetually war-torn third world stuff because, shocker, crime's going to be unusually high for reasons not entirely relevant to what you're trying to isolate.