"Murderous London is like old New York" - what a crap. There were 180 homicides in London in the year ending June 30, 2006 according to the London Metro Police ->
http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/ compared to the nearly 600 in New York. So London has a homicide rate of about 2.5 per 100.000 inhabitants while NY has about 7.3 ->
about 3 times higher than London. I went to London 5 times and i went through Tower Hamlets, the so called "crime hot spots" and never ever happened anything to me or the people with me. Nearly every bigger european city has a
lower homicide rate than any bigger US-City, except maybe the baltic cities. For comparison: Austria has 8.3 mio. people and in 2005 there were 58 (completed) homicides. Therefore a homicide rate of 0,7. Vienna has 1,6 mio. people (comparable to philadelphia) and had about 20 homicides in 2005 while Philly had about 400.
So Vienna has the same amount of homicides that Philly has in half a month.
