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There seems to be this assumption that Canada has a lower crime rate than the US, but I can't find any statistics to support that assumption.
In http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050721/d050721a.htm , Canada had 946 violent crimes per 100k.
In that same year of 2004, USA had http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/4meastab.htm violent crimes per 100k (divide 1,648,100 by 301 million then multiply by 100k).
Canadians are twice as violent as Americans? Did I take the wrong stats or did I miscalculate something?
In http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050721/d050721a.htm , Canada had 946 violent crimes per 100k.
In that same year of 2004, USA had http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/4meastab.htm violent crimes per 100k (divide 1,648,100 by 301 million then multiply by 100k).
Canadians are twice as violent as Americans? Did I take the wrong stats or did I miscalculate something?
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