Crime Rates

Query:  Won't American crime rates jump with all the new Arab and Jewish Americans? America has already the highest crime rates of the developed lands of the world. Now we are thinking of adding maybe 10 million more Americans, half Arabs, half Jews. What will happen to our crime rates? Won't they soar? To the contrary. Nothing to worry about. The rates in Israel and Palestine now are confused, given several different police forces, divided localities, the general alarm and the frequent state-directed  violence both in Palestine and Israel. But they do not appear to be any higher than the American rates and actually may be lower. There may be a problem with recent Russian-Israelis; Russia's rates are high. Palestinian crime rates appear to be lower than Israeli rates. More American men are killed (per 100K) than Israelis (even counting the attacks by Palestinians).  (The US today has the world's  highest homicide rate and highest incarceration, parole and probation rates – 1 in every 40 adults). Southern American states and cities are likely to frighten an ordinary Canaan, if he simply looks at the rates. New York City, for instance, where so many Jews and Muslims congregate, has safer conditions of person and property than Houston or Los Angeles or Chicago. Canaan State itself, when conditions settle down, will likely be a haven of security in the USA.

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