UK drug offence rates 326 worse than USA?

[the truth]

unbelievable .....In terms of drug offence rates per person, we're way ahead of all south american nations, south africa, afghanistan , everyone bar ze germans

http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/United-Kingdom/United-States/Crime

http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/United-Kingdom/United-States/Crime

our rates are 326 worse than the usa.....how did we get here?

[user104658]

Weeeeell... to be fair... first of all, the site itself admits this:

"Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence."

Secondly;

UK: 183,419 per 100,000 people
US: 560.1 per 100,000 people

:S this surely either has to be a misprint, or it's a case of a small percentage of people being charged a HUGE number of times.

Even if you're claiming that 1 in 10 people in the UK has drug charges against them (highly unlikely it's anywhere near that) ... that's 18 charges per person :joker:. The figure is surely less than 1 in 20 in reality. So more than 40 charges per person ON AVERAGE? And a large number of those would only have 1 charge meaning at the top end, there must be people with several HUNDRED drug charges in order for that figure to be correct.

I personally reckon that the number has been entered incorrectly and should be 1,834.19...

Either way, I'd be more concerned about all of this:

Murders committed by youths
UK: 139 USA: 8,226 <--- wtf.

Murders with firearms
UK: 14 USA: 9,369

Suicide rates in ages 15-24
UK: 6.7 per 100,000 people USA: 13.7 per 100,000 people

Suicide rates in ages 25-34
UK: 10.6 per 100,000 people USA: 15.3 per 100,000 people


Sort of puts "possession of a class B drug" charges into perspective...

[Livia]

I don't know that site so obviously I'm not going to trust their stats just because someone's provided a link. Who would?

[Jesus.]

******ing women. I'm not sure how exactly, but I just know they are to blame.

[AnnieK]

Radical feminism is the problem here...and the higher suicide rates in males

[Jesus.]

Look at Annie trying to be controversial :laugh:

[AnnieK]

:angel:

[Jesus.]

That's better.

[the truth]

no trolling please , its Christmas