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Crime stats: Hong Kong vs United States

  Hong Kong Crime stats

  American Crime stats

Adults prosecuted 25,494 14,203,800
Ranked 23rd. Ranked 1st. 556 times more than Hong Kong
Car thefts 2,804 1,246,096
Ranked 37th. Ranked 1st. 443 times more than Hong Kong
Drug offences 34 per 100,000 people 560.1 per 100,000 people
Ranked 24th. Ranked 4th. 15 times more than Hong Kong
Frauds 5,090 371,800
Ranked 31st. Ranked 2nd. 72 times more than Hong Kong
Illicit drugs despite strenuous law enforcement efforts, faces difficult challenges in controlling transit of heroin and methamphetamine to regional and world markets; modern banking system provides conduit for money laundering; rising indigenous use of synthetic drugs, especially among young people world's largest consumer of cocaine (shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean), Colombian heroin, and Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center
Jails 10,593 1,558
Ranked 3rd. 6 times more than United States Ranked 5th.
Judges and Magistrates 143 29,023
Ranked 38th. Ranked 2nd. 202 times more than Hong Kong
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Sentence Length 6 29
Ranked 27th. Ranked 16th. 4 times more than Hong Kong
Software piracy rate 51% 20%
Ranked 69th. 155% more than United States Ranked 107th.
Total crimes 80,592 11,877,218
Ranked 40th. Ranked 1st. 146 times more than Hong Kong

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