FACTOID # 12: In pure number terms, more crimes are committed in America than in any other nation. The same goes for burglaries, car thefts, rapes and assaults.
 
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North America > United States > Crime

Assault victims 1.2% [11th of 20]
Believe in police efficiency 89% [1st of 17]
Bribe payers index 6.2 [9th of 19]
Car thefts 1,246,096 [1st of 46]
Drug offences 560.1 per 100,000 people [4th of 46]
Executions 42 executions [5th of 22]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 39.5604 [7th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 9.1 [14th of 32]
Jails 1,558 [5th of 80]
Murders committed by youths 8,226 [3rd of 73]
Murders with firearms 9,369 [1st of 36]
Perception of safety > Walking in dark 82% [2nd of 15]
Prisoners 2,019,234 prisoners [1st of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita 715 per 100,000 people [1st of 164]
Rape victims 0.4% [13th of 20]
Software piracy rate 20% [107th of 107]
Suicide rates in ages 15-24 13.7 per 100,000 people [7th of 17]
Suicide rates in ages 25-34 15.3 per 100,000 people [10th of 17]
Total crime victims 21.1% [15th of 20]
Total crimes 11,877,218 [1st of 50]

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SOURCES: UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin; UN International Crime Victims' Survey; Transparency International; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); Amnesty International; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; GECD Society at a Glance 2001, Statistical Annex Table D3

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

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Jed
25th November 2011
Put a sign in your front yard that reads "Gun Free House" & see where the criminals go.
Bob+chaseless
19th October 2011
I have a de formed head and and my nose is also de formed. My head looks like a balloon and my spine is crooked.
Bob chaseless
19th October 2011
I have a de formed nose and my head looks like a balloon and n,zmy fnirea are de frmsd oh time for bed
Sarah
15th September 2011
I find it hard to beleive that someone named MELISSA is columbian, what are you, like one eighth columbian or something? If you live in America, then you are now AMERICAN. Learn some facts yourself.
m-dogg
8th December 2005
I need ur opinion on weather guns should be for only malitia or if they should be leagal for the streets.
Kathy
2nd October 2005
Why does Louisiana have the highest number of murder?
Melissa
22nd September 2005
Hi, I am Colombian and I find it very offending that you KATHY AND NATE jump to conclusions about Colombia without knowing the facts! Have you ever even been to Colombia? It's a beautiful country with a lot of culture to offer but all you think about it is that its "the most dangerous". Please! Before you believe everything you see on TV and start offending people, THINK before you write something like that. Do you realize, KATHY AND NATE, how many countries there are in this world? And do you honestly believe that out all of those countries Colombia is the most dangerous? That's funny because if it was the most dangerous then how come my whole entire family and everyone I know has lived there their whole lives without crime? THINK next time you go being so narrow minded! You ignorant person!!!!!!!!! - A PROUD COLOMBIAN
John
3rd August 2005
Per capita :

Adult Prosecuted : 1) Finland 31.68 per 1000 people
Assault Victims : 1) Saint Kitts and Nevis 3.0% (USA 10th)
Assault : 1) Montserrat 10.38 per 1000 people
Bribe Payers : 1) Sweden 8.3 (USA 9th)
Burglaries : 1) Australia 21.93 per 1000 people
Car Thief : 1) Australia 6.98 per 1000 people
Murders : 1) Colombia 0.62 per 1000 people
Rapes : 1) Australia 0.78 per 1000 people
Robbery : 1) Chile 6.99 per 1000 people
Murders with Firearms : 1) Colombia 0.51 per 1000 people
Total Crime Victims : 1st Australia 30.1% (USA 15th)
Freud : 1) Germany 10.86 per 1000 people
Jackie Mccomsey
24th July 2005
You all talk a lot, but you don't seem to know much about facts. The United States Goverenment, has this country so blind. The poverty level with no running water or electricty. Half of our prison system are marajuana related charges, that the Mayor of New York ran a six year test to tell if you smoke pot for 6 years all day you may get bronchitis. No cancer, no liver damage, no heart damage. But they legalized alcohol that not only kills the body, but drinking and driving kills innocent children.Prostitution, they are still locking men and women up for having money put in their hand for companionship, but you can wine and dine them to sleep with them and that is o:k. One of our men came back from Iraq and said on national tv that he refused to go back over there and kill more innocent women and kids. That they are no threat to us and never was. Mr Bush is a very greedy man. He is building a pipeline from Texes through their country and instead of making some kind of agreement with them, He rather kill them and take their land. Im not a prostitute, nor a pot smoker. I've always believed in Jesus Christ and He told me not to be a follower, but to have a mind of my on and ask question to form my own opinion about things. I am a very happily married female. I have smoked pot when I was younger as well as alcohol. I do still smoke cigarettes. But research your theories before forming your opinion, because you just may mislead or misguide some weak mind. Don't listen to the government and take it as an oath. Go on line and search Poverty, Inflation, Biofuel, that is a good one. Mr. Bush is so greedy all we need is deisel engine cars.Biofuel is oil that will run a car, with out the polution, and put the farmers back to work full force. But what would that greedy Bush do with all his oil. OPEN YOUR MIND! That is really why the fuel prices have not gone down. My email if you like to talk more is jackiemccomsey@msn.com
WakeUp
23rd June 2005
I wish this site would actually educate people on how to read these statistics or, from the start, show accurate percentages. The United States, as a whole, is one of the safest nations in the world, with one of the better legal systems that exists. What matters most is the city. You have to click the little "per capita" link to actually see the true listings. The way this site shows "rankings" next to countries is downright misleading and dangerous in and of itself.
derek
13th June 2005
The Right to Bear Arms has existed since BEFORE crime statistics, Gated Communities etc...Were it not for Arms, We'd still be Subjects of the Queen. I'll take dangerous self-determination over servitude to inbred Monarchs any day. I AM a Soveriegn of ONE.
Edria Murray
Staff Editor

16th May 2005
In response to Drew - The 'c' means 'approximately' or 'around'. It is used when the value stated is an estimate.
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