United Kingdom:
* Population: 64 million
* Number of murders in the UK per year: ~400
* Number of police officers killed in the line of duty in 2015: 1
* Number of police officers shot to death in 2015: 0
United States:
* Population: 300 million
* Number of murders in the US every year: ~15,000
* Number of police officers killed in the line of duty in 2015: 117
* Number of police officers shot to death in 2015: 36
To put this into perspective, there have been 274 murders in Baltimore alone this year, a city of 600,000 people (roughly the same population as Glasgow). This makes Baltimore the 20th most violent city on planet earth. Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, which is notorious for cartel violence, had fewer murders per capita than Baltimore. Four of the 50 most violent cities on planet earth are in the United States. Curiously enough, no cities in the UK made the list.
This means that ONE SMALL AMERICAN CITY with a population similar to Glasgow, had more than half the number of murders of the entire UK with a population of 64 million.
data.baltimoresun.com
odmp.org
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
If you take every single terrorist attack, nail bomb attack, acid attack and stabbing in London over the last 20 years, it's still less than the number of Americans murdered in one month. In Europe, if one person gets some caustic soda thrown in their face, it makes international headlines. When mass shootings happen in the US, they're not even reported outside the city where it occurred unless the dead are in double digits.
