Posted by dj on January 28, 2000, at 16:02:17
In reply to Re: The Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine, & Murder on..., posted by Kev on January 28, 2000, at 11:04:56
Interesting choices there Kev in that they go back to the 1960s because there is so little to choose from here, in comparismn to the barbarism that runs rampant in the US on a daily basis. I don't have the statistics currently but I worked on an Inquiry into Policing in British Columbia in 1995 and our violent crime rat was SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than in the US because we trust our government and we allow them to keep guns and the psychopaths who kill with them under better control.
Interestingly the perception of crime was MUCH MORE than the reality in many people's fearful minds because american media constantly bombard us with images of violence, far in excess of the reality (in Canada at least)
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