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Re:The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement s... by elwaz on Thursday December 11, 2014 @08:33PM (#8738136)
"London has far more gun crime than much of the US does"

Can we get a figure to back that up please? The MET places gun crime figures in greater London at 1570 (http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/) with a population of approx 8 million. Which American populations would you compare this to and what are their figures?

I've spent a significant amount of time in London and have never once run into any firearms incidents. It would be interesting to me to see the data behind this.

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Re:The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement s... by Crito on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:01PM (#8738239)
There is no shortage of small communities across America that have not had a gun crime in decades. Zero stays zero, even when you make it per-capita.

Whether or not this is a fair comparison is another matter.

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Re:The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement s... by elwaz on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:11PM (#8738270)
Fair call. To clear that up I would count urbanised centres of a similar population size and density would be a reasonable basis of comparison. I imagine England would have a large number of small communities with zero gun crime as well.
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