02-27-2018, 05:21 AM
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He used misleading figures.
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As we were conducting our research, we stumbled across a thoughtful critique of this claim on a blog called the Skeptical Libertarian that was written by Daniel Bier, a master?s degree candidate in economics at Rutgers University. (Bier fact-checked a claim that?s similar, though with slightly different wording than the meme we?re checking.)
Bier?s primary concern about comparing crime rates in the United Kingdom and the United States is that the definitions of crimes in each country are significantly different. This was not reflected in news coverage in British newspapers that appear to have been the source of the meme. This oversight produced a misleading comparison.
As Bier put it, "The FBI?s Uniform Crime Reports defines a ?violent crime? as one of four specific offenses: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault." By contrast, "the British definition includes all ?crimes against the person,? including simple assaults, all robberies, and all ?sexual offenses,? as opposed to the FBI, which only counts aggravated assaults and ?forcible rapes.? "
Once you know this, Bier wrote, "it becomes clear how misleading it is to compare rates of violent crime in the U.S. and the U.K. You?re simply comparing two different sets of crimes."
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Countries Compared by Crime > Violent crime > Murder rate. International Statistics at NationMaster.com
Also Social media post says U.K. has far higher violent crime rate than U.S. does | PolitiFact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...e#By_ country |
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