Not only that - quoted from the bottom.... DEFINITION: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population. Also - What does each country report as a crime? One may be fine with smacking kids bums, another may not be. >>> jamesnewton@massmind.org 06 Dec 07 12:53:34 >>> Do please check the "per capita" listings on the nationmaster web site. -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Xiaofan Chen Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 21:54 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: [OT]:: From another land On 12/6/07, Apptech wrote: > BUT click on any country name and get states in major crime > areas for that country. > And can get occurrence ordered lists for the other headings. > And a world overall crimes committed chart > > http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri-crime-total-crimes > > The most crime occurring country in the world, by a factor > of almost 4:1 over lawless Germany is, ... - look and see. > Maybe this is actually not that wrong, at least from what I watched in various TV channels and newspapers during my short stay this year in Cleveland. On July 4th, there were 5 (or 4) people killed that single day in Cleveland. 3 of them killed by a firefighter with a gun simply because of they were blowing off fireworks and the Cleveland firefighter got mad and killed them. I was reading Plain Dealer on July 5th. And I was in a colleague's house on the evening of July 4th and the children was playing with fireworks. I would not want to go to any July 4th gatherings in Cleveland next time. http://www.city-data.com/forum/cleveland/111078-violent-4th-july-cleveland.h tml http://blog.cleveland.com/plaindealer/2007/07/firefighter_shot_without_warni .html -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist