Do Pakistan & Sudan really have lower murder rates than the US and Canada?
All liberal science is junk science:
"...judging by murder rates, people in Muslim-majority countries actually tend to be
significantly less violent" - UC-Berkeley Professor M. Steven Fish.
Muslim Countries Have Low Murder Rates" Study Says Canada More Violent Than Sudan
January 21, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
...............Some countries fairly accurately document every known murder. Others barely even have functioning governments. Or governments that are not about to share real statistics that make them look bad.
Even in the United States, urban police forces have been known to fudge numbers. What's Chicago's real murder rate? Good question. It depends on classification and clearance rates. Murders can be reclassified as death by unknown causes. And voila, a lower murder rate.
Japan's low murder rate is often cited by gun control advocates. But in reality, it's kept artificially low because police choose not to classify many murders as such for cultural reasons. Instead Japan has one of the world's highest "suicide" rates. Researchers consider Japan's murder rates to be mostly worthless. And oh yes, it somehow has a conviction rate higher than most totalitarian states.
.............For a murder rate per 100,000 measure to be worth anything, the country needs comprehensive policing. There has to be a credible reason to believe that the average murder will be investigated and listed.
How accurate is Pakistan's murder rate considering that the government doesn't control sizable sections of the country? What's the murder rate in Waziristan? Or in many rural areas, particularly tribal areas, where crime isn't settled by law enforcement, but by local elders.
And of course, it's not murder if it doesn't count as murder. There are an estimated 1,000 honor killings in Pakistan of women and girls every year, most of which go unreported and are not considered murders.
........... M. Steven Fish's premise has nothing to do with his thesis. His statistics are bad. His entire structure is based on bad faith. Using per 100,000 rates to compare the United States and Canada to Pakistan and Egypt, where the government has lost control of entire territories and police credibility is low even in major cities is worthless.
Fish is treating the statistical validity of ridiculously low crime statistics from Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt as being equally legitimate to those of the United States and Canada. This is junk science.
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