Crime Statistics

[news24]

Interesting Facts

* Per capita, South Africa has the most assaults, rapes, and murders with firearms.
* Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China.
* Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia.
* Venezuela is one of the happiest and most murderous places in the world.
* Russia has almost twice as many judges and magistrates as the United States. Meanwhile, the United States has 8 times as much crime.
* In the Maldives, there are more than 2 jails for every 1000 people.
* One in every three Australians is a victim of crime.
* Saudi diplomats have 367 unpaid parking fines in Britain.
* 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.
* The United States puts 0.7 % of its population in Prison - a vastly higher percentage than any other nation.
* India’s criminal courts acquitted over a million defendants in 1999, more than the next 48 surveyed countries combined.
* Women make up more than 10% of the prison population in only six countries: Thailand, , Qatar, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Singapore.
* People trust Swedes! Swedish companies are the world’s least-likely to be perceived as paying bribes.
* 84% of people in Finland feel that they are at a low risk of experiencing a burglary - but just look at how many burglaries they have!
* The Caribbean islands of Barbados, Saint Lucia and Grenada are all in the top 5 for the most crowded prisons in the world.
* 82% of people in Finland show confidence in police institutions, though only 41% of the Fins surveyed felt they could report a crime to the police.

 

[Zenbaas]

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[news24]

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For Interesting Facts http://www.nationmaster.com/facts/Crime

All the stats http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_percap-crime-total-crimes-per-capita

 

[PeterCH]

I'm not sure why they're comparing Russia and it's high number of judges vs USA with its lower number, but its common knowledge which of the two countries uses archaic outdated philosophies and which is more corrupt.

Secondly:

* One in every three Australians is a victim of crime.

How do they define crime? Do they consider fraud attempts as crime? 411 scams? Malware? a punchup between two neighbours? A friend getting drunk and rowdy? Do they include all that in terms of crime. Are those objective or subjective stats (ie do they perceive themselves victims of crime).
I think stats like this are useless if we don't have a consistent definition of what crime is.

 

[news24]

How do they define crime? Do they consider fraud attempts as crime? 411 scams? Malware? a punchup between two neighbours? A friend getting drunk and rowdy? Do they include all that in terms of crime. Are those objective or subjective stats (ie do they perceive themselves victims of crime).
I think stats like this are useless if we don't have a consistent definition of what crime is.

It boils you, that Australia is not as much as a heaven as you'd like it to be.

Anyway, are you from Australia? I'm not talking about touring. What is that you know about Australia? I'm using facts and your using personal facts...

Attempts of crime? Dood

 

[Frankie]

It boils you, that Australia is not as much as a heaven as you'd like it to be.

Only in some warped minds.

Anyway, are you from Australia? I'm not talking about touring. What is that you know about Australia? I'm using facts and your using personal facts...

Attempts of crime? Dood

I've lived in Australia for some time to qualify my comments that the comparisons between crime in SA vs AUS presented by the trolls in this thread are way off the mark and a sure sign of a malicious agenda.
Compared to SA there's virtually zero crime in SA, and when crime occurs the police catch the criminals and the courts sentence then to appropriate jail terms (not luxury hospital like Jacob Zuma's co-accused Shabby Shake).

 

[news24]

Only in some warped minds.

I've lived in Australia for some time to qualify my comments

How long enough? I'm the only person in my family to be a victim of crime, my parents, sisters, brother, aunts, uncles and grandmother. Have never been a victim of crime, and they do feel that they are safe where they are, by virtue of your argument there is almost zero crime in SA.

 

[gpe]

The sad reality is that we've come to use stats as a benchmark for our fight against crime. I've noted an improvement in the stats in the last three years for murder and rape - both going down. This is impossible given that there is more poverty; more unemployment; incentives to police departments that report less crime; no new jails ever built with more prisoners being released for early parole; private research firms releasing quarterly stats that break all records.

It simply makes no sense!

If you look at the number of attacks against police members alone, it's shocking. Criminals have NO fear to attack police members in SA. Population migration + urbanisation + colombianisation can only mean unimproved statistics.

 

[news24]

The sad reality is that we've come to use stats as a benchmark for our fight against crime. I've noted an improvement in the stats in the last three years for murder and rape - both going down. This is impossible given that there is more poverty; more unemployment; incentives to police departments that report less crime; no new jails ever built with more prisoners being released for early parole; private research firms releasing quarterly stats that break all records.

It simply makes no sense!

If you look at the number of attacks against police members alone, it's shocking. Criminals have NO fear to attack police members in SA. Population migration + urbanisation + colombianisation can only mean unimproved statistics.

You cannot use poverty and unemployment to justify the high levels of violent crimes. If you are hungry, murder and rape cannot feed you.

Your talking about incentives, no new jails, private research firms, with no facts or links to back you up.

Here is a start.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20070523003246489C940312

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-02-19-first-new-generation-prison-coming-in-2009

http://www.search.gov.za/info/previ...t=SKOSANA:+OPENING+OF+QALAKABUSHA+PRISON,+KZN

http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2002/02053013461001.htm

 

[gpe]

You cannot use poverty and unemployment to justify the high levels of violent crimes. If you are hungry, murder and rape cannot feed you.

Your talking about incentives, no new jails, private research firms, with no facts or links to back you up.

Here is a start.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20070523003246489C940312

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-02-19-first-new-generation-prison-coming-in-2009

http://www.search.gov.za/info/previ...t=SKOSANA:+OPENING+OF+QALAKABUSHA+PRISON,+KZN

http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2002/02053013461001.htm

You're not qualified to refute my thoughts or facts. That much I do know

But you're definitely a troll.

 

[Frankie]

How long enough?

Is this a trick question? Is it English?

I'm the only person in my family to be a victim of crime, my parents, sisters, brother, aunts, uncles and grandmother. Have never been a victim of crime, and they do feel that they are safe where they are, by virtue of your argument there is almost zero crime in SA.

Your family can go ahead and live in their delusional world that SA's crime levels are accepable, but it's a dangerous approach when the streets are filled with followers of the rapist criminal Jacob Zuma.

Done feeding the troll in this thread.

 

[Vitowe]

How long enough? I'm the only person in my family to be a victim of crime, my parents, sisters, brother, aunts, uncles and grandmother. Have never been a victim of crime, and they do feel that they are safe where they are, by virtue of your argument there is almost zero crime in SA.

Get real. Most South Africans would feel safer walking down a Baghdad street with a neon Star of David mounted over their head and flinging pork chops through the local resident's windows than driving down Commisioner street in an armoured car.

 

[MacNabs]

Car theft per capita, it does not have anything to do with population, that of people or cars. For every 1000 cars in Australia, 7 are stolen, it does not matter if they have 1 billion cars or 3 million cars.

Looks like we are doing good when it comes to buglaries, Australia is number one.

Overall crimes (per capita) (most recent) by country

Car thefts, SA has the highest rate in the world. The stats you looking at are screwed. Remember a hijacked car is a stolen car, you have left off hijacking completely.

as i said in another thread:

bollocks! In Aus or the UK the stats are reported, unlike SA where they are very under reported and changed to suite the governments claims that crime is coming down!!! Never rely on the SA crime stats!!! Test this yourself, park your car anywhere in JHB, leave a phone on the front seat, and see which car/phone disappears first in which country, in Hillbrow the car won’t last 1 second. Why is a tracker device for cars unheard of in Aus or NZ? Why does nobody here know what a gorilla lock is? In all my years here in NZ I have never seen a gorilla grip on a car, let alone a gear lock. PS: NZ and Aus are very simular when it comes to crime, hence I am commenting on behalf of my experiences here in NZ. Oh ja, add hijacking to the list of car thefts, in SA its under a subcategory called “hijacking”. Those cars get stolen too.

Gauteng, 2008
http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/re...df/gauteng.pdf
7466 hijacked cars, 39,961 stolen cars.

Western Cape 2008,
http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/re...esterncape.pdf
923 hijacked cars, 12955 stolen cars.

Also remember burglary in SA is also under a sub category, Robbery at residential premises, over 7000 cases in one year, gauteng alone. Thats not burglary, this is where the thugs come in with guns, something unheard of in Aus or NZ.

As for Overall crimes (per capita) (most recent) by country. New Zealand comes up second, wow.

#1 Dominica: 113.822 per 1,000 people
#2 New Zealand: 105.881 per 1,000 people
#3 Finland: 101.526 per 1,000 people
#4 Denmark: 92.8277 per 1,000 people
#5 Chile: 88.226 per 1,000 people
#6 United Kingdom: 85.5517 per 1,000 people
#7 Montserrat: 80.3982 per 1,000 people
#8 United States: 80.0645 per 1,000 people
#9 Netherlands: 79.5779 per 1,000 people
#10 South Africa: 77.1862 per 1,000 people

Do some research before you troll on making out SA is a safe haven. New Zealand and many other first world countries have "petty crime" as part of their statistics. Dishonesty for example, something which if measured in SA the entire government would be guilty of, let alone every single person in the street.

http://www.police.govt.nz/service/statistics/

Maybe try learn to spell before trying to read and understand crime stats....

 

[MacNabs]

It boils you, that Australia is not as much as a heaven as you'd like it to be.

Anyway, are you from Australia? I'm not talking about touring. What is that you know about Australia? I'm using facts and your using personal facts...

Attempts of crime? Dood

Australia is a haven compared to SA, nobody needs to justify that. Here in NZ i don't know anybody that has been a victim of crime, and I am talking any type of crime. Robbery, theft, hijacking etc... You have to have lived in a normal society to understand what I am talking about, and until you have. SA is the norm for you unfortunately.

 

[mercurial]

Geez this news24 guy is a government troll. Trying to pull one over the masses. The first link you provided - the one that this whole thread is based about is outdated from way back in 2003. Way to go to use old BS stats for your agenda

You cannot use poverty and unemployment to justify the high levels of violent crimes.

Are you fckn high? That is the very reason for crime. People who cannot afford to sustain themselves and families are forced into lives of crime in order to survive. You lack a very rudimentary level of logic

 

[MacNabs]

That is the very reason for crime. People who cannot afford to sustain themselves and families are forced into lives of crime in order to survive. You lack a very rudimentary level of logic

Thats so untrue, look at countries like India and Thailand, both have ghettos, some much worse than SA, where people are even poorer than the poorest in SA. And both countries are extremely safe. Poverty is not an excuse for crime, and should never be seen as such.

 

[mercurial]

Thats so untrue, look at countries like India and Thailand, both have ghettos, some much worse than SA, where people are even poorer than the poorest in SA. And both countries are extremely safe. Poverty is not an excuse for crime, and should never be seen as such.

Let's stick to SA and USA for now. That is where poverty = crime is a fact. I don't know much about Asian countries so I cannot comment.

 

[kingmonty]

What's the point of this thread?

 

[Frankie]

Let's stick to SA and USA for now. That is where poverty = crime is a fact. I don't know much about Asian countries so I cannot comment.

But violent crime is completely uncalled for and very rare in other poverty stricken countries.

 

[mercurial]

But violent crime is completely uncalled for and very rare in other poverty stricken countries.

Very rare in which poverty stricken countries? Most poor countries I can think of, has lots of crime. Look no further than South America.