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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
Statistics prove this to be incorrect; overall certain ethnic groups, within the USA at least, have a much higher % of criminals than others do (the reasons for this are unimportant for this debate).
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Why is there a higher percentage among certain ethnic groups? Social problems - it's 50 steps back, but that is the source of most crime. It's the same in all countries - not just the US.
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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
It follows that a population with a smaller proportion of the same would have a lower % of violent crimes overall.
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Missing the logic on this :-)
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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
The example of comparing Winnipeg to DC seemed to indicate that the main difference between the two cities was gun laws, when in reality there are more factors involved, mainly the people that make up those cities.
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OK.. When cherry-picking relatively small regions it's hard to come up with any balanced stats and can see what you mean. Again.. prob better to use whole nations to evaluate than smallish areas.
If you take Canada as a whole and compare with the US pro rata population - the fuller picture will show - and along the lines of international stats.