On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:17:30PM -0500, Joseph E. Olson wrote: > In the UK where burglars serve no prison time at all, look at the > latest police initiative.
Also interesting for the statistics mongers in the crowd:
How worried should we be about the extent of gun crime on our streets?
Richard Ford, Home Correspondent
Sometimes, listening to politicians, police and the media, it can
sound as if there is a gun-toting criminal on every street
corner. The truth is far more nuanced. Serious gun crime is
concentrated in particular parts of England and Wales;
internationally, the country has a low death rate from guns
compared with EU states such as France and Finland.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2324223.ece
I thought that this was particularly interesting:
Are drugs the key link to firearms?
It certainly looks that way. Because the drugs market is illegal,
those involved in it must have weapons to protect themselves, to
defend their drugs territories and markets and to enforce debts.
Research on gun crime carried out for the Home Office suggested
that "illegal drugs markets represent the single most important
theme in relation to the use of illegal firearms".
This suggests that drug legalization would do a lot to reduce all
crimes, not just freamrs offenses
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