Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
ok, one city has less violence than a whole country. wow.
Um, my point was that serious violence is not endemic. Total population of Israel is 7,411,000 as of last year. The total population of Greater London is... 7,512,400.

So, if there's less violence in London, then London is proportianally safer. If there is more violence it's probably still safer than a comparable population density in Israel.

In point of fact, the Met tells me there were 139 murders in Greater London in the last 12 months: http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/. Wiki says Israel had 173 in 2004 and 147 in 2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder#Israel. The Beeb says London had 194 in 2004, down from 222 in 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7191769.stm

That's just one densely populated city though, and that population is greater than the population of Israel and the West Bank.