>> >>> Gentlemen,
>>>
>>> From my position as an outside observer looking on with dismay from
>>> glorious tax-exiledome abroad (as Mr. Plowman sees it) I can't help
>>> but notice the staggering number murders taking place in Britain these >>> days.
>
>> It would be helpful if you could provide the source of your
>> misinformation. Would this be some old encyclopedia?
>
> If he wasn't so thick, Doom could easily find the homicide rates per
> capita by country.
Actually, finding the UK murder stats for recent decades (starting with the 1950s or 1960s) isn't easy.
>>> The kind of thing that would be national news for weeks on end
>>> 50 or 60 years ago is now so commonplace that it barely warrants a few
>>> desultory lines in the local rag.
>
>> Perhaps the readership don't want to read such things
>
>>> Something really needs doing (like reintroducing hanging) but no one
>>> in politics is even referencing the problem, let alone dealing with
>>> it. WTF is to be done and why is that bloody useless woman still in
>>> post as home secretary??
>
> And even easier to work out if capital punishment had a positive result.
If it kept the number of murders down to a fraction of what the numbers are today, and if the number of murders started climbing when the death penalty was abolished, wouldn't you agree that the penalty was having a positive effect?
> Why? the homicide rate is pretty stable:
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>> Note the compressed scale. From 2002 to 2021, the highest rate being 18
>> per million, currently 10.1 per million.
>
>> Given the lockdowns and the concerns over domestic violence, I'm
>> surprised the current rate isn't higher.
>
> I'd say a good start would be hanging, drawing and quartering tax dodgers.