From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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>> and being that blase gets a Brazilian shot?  Sounds good, stiff upper lip
>> and all, but it is more myth then fact.
>
> I'm REALLY getting pissed off with the hypocrisy of this.
>
> It's news simply because the British police - in general - don't shoot
> anybody, let alone innocent people.
>
> Of course, it's routine in the USA.  So routine, indeed, that it doesn't
> even make the news.
>
> How many unarmed people have been shot dead by police in New York alone so
> far his year?
>
>

Talk about hypocracy - how about reporting the crimes ?

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2006/04/crime-in-uk-london-vs-new-york.html

In 2002 a study found that 11 million crimes had been left out of British
government figures, including hundreds of thousands of serious crimes
involving woundings, robberies, assaults and even murders as well as
thefts. Dr. David Green of the Civitas research institute said: "When
you check the small print, it turns out the Home Office itself thinks that
there were far more than the 13 million crimes discovered by the [official]
British Crime Survey, perhaps four times as many." Dr Green said the
Office of National Statistics was subject to political interference and a
genuinely independent statistical service was needed.
 Civitas said previously that the rise in British crime-rates was "so
spectacular" that it was "difficult to comprehend." Britain
was "a seriously crime-infected and disintegrating society."
Burglaries had increased from 72,000 in 1964 to 402,000 in 2004. Robberies
of personal property had risen from 3,000 in 1964 to 101,000 in 2003-04.
The report added: "England, from being a society remarkably free of
crime and disorder, especially from the middle of the 19th to the middle of
the 20th century, by the late 1990's had a worse record than France,
Germany or the United States."

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