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How Safe Are the Polish Cities? [179]
Statistics never hurt anyone....judging an entire countries crime rate by people who happen to come here by mere probability and happen to have "endured" these crimes is wrong. Yes there is sympathy, but according to truth:
According to the
2007-2011 Eurostat reports on the
Crime and Criminal Justice Report which uses reports filed by a countries police/sovereign system, these were the rates of intentional
homicides per 100,000 individuals of that country:
Poland is
1.21 and has been
gradually lowering from the late 1990's rate at
2.21.
The United Kingdom is at
1.28.
Ireland is at
1.25.
Russia is at a
whopping13.0.
The Balkan average was
1.64; excluding Albania which had
four times the rate than any other Balkan country at
4.5.
and Germany has one of the
lowest in the world at
0.86.
I chose these countries since it seems most posters on this forum are from these places.
Other recognitions were that African countries had
among the highest rates for the last consecutive decade for which such statistics were collected with
rates as high as the 40's and as low as the 20's.El Salvador has the
highest rate at a horrifying
71, spiking up from
52 in 2008 and
37 in 2000.
And finally to conclude with peace, Monaco, Palau, and Iceland all had
0.00 rates.
