Yoko, please excuse my ignorance. I should have specified Canada has pretty equal theft and lesser-crime rates as the US, but our murder and assault rates are much higher.
Here's some damn research, scroll down to the second graph.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quoti...11218b-eng.htm
Here's some more updated research.
USA has 2.8 times higher murder rate.
Hit cntl F and search "crime" here
http://www.unitednorthamerica.org/simdiff.htm/
Here's the most recent
(middle of the page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._homicide_rate
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