[LancYorkYankee]

Originally Posted by steeljack

will probably get lambasted for this .......the reason the US has such a high murder rate is the same as the reason for the Metropolitan London Police setting up 'operation trident ' , when one minority section of the UK population (representing less than 2.5%of the UK total) make up 9% of the prison population there is something going on, and its not racial profiling , these 9% are just the folks who have been convicted and are serving time.
Think you will find that if you compare murder rates among U.S. States and Euro countries with similar ethnic groups i.e. N. & S. Dakota, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Maine with say Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany you will find no noticable difference in the murder or crime rates , the same comparison could probably be made for New Zealand and Australia .

As for the eastern Europeans I think thats pretty well self evident, a total inate dis-respect for any kind of Law and Order , one only has to wonder what special business skills all these Russian exiles living in London and elsewhere in the West posess and why so many are afraid of returning even for a brief visit if they have done nothing wrong , seems to me since the "fall of communism" the only eastern europeans capable of living with 'western' values and standards are the populations of Hungary, and the Czech and Slovak republics.

and here endeth todays lesson on eugenics

Very good point Steeljack. There is certainly cultural elements to those who commit crime and tend to have very little respect for human life. Still quite tired though would to respond more.

BEA