Saturday, February 01, 2014

Interesting Tidbits I found on Wiki

Was getting reference material for conversation with JJ bout Japanese school rules.  The same Youtuber who is apparently a guy who favors his political views of Japan where he lives, also had a video I watched once just marveling at how a drunk man in a McDonalds was being taken care of by cops who did nothing beyond, talk, move his arm from pushing them when they nudged him back.   The video had a word I didn't know ( like most Japanese words ;p) and I wiki'd it... to find it was basically meaning... Mafia in japan.

Not USA style cement booties mafia; oddly organized yet with certain morals that you'd not expect.  Wiki Yakuza sometime.   The thing that I wanna talk about is the "Crime in Japan" wiki I clicked in the see more...  It staggered me that - and I warn I am not an educated political type... I dislike politic a lot so please no hate - compared to our crime rates and more so their view and way of doing things is both different yet working insanely well.  Below I've quotation-ed some comparisons.

USA: Crime rates have varied over time in the United States. American crime rates generally rose after World War II, and peaked between the 1970s and early 1990s. Since the early 1990s, crime has declined in the United States,[5] and current crime rates are approximately the same as those of the 1960s.[2]

JAPAN: Crime in Japan is lower than in all other industrialized countries. While statistics show that the overall crime rate in Japan continues to decrease, there are controversies regarding crimes committed by non-ethnic Japanese people and misconduct by police in reporting crime statistics.
As our crime has gone down but slightly.. Japan however has dropped theirs drastically.  It seems a large reasoning would be due to the lack of something we in the USA are still fighting over.  Guns.

Legal Deterrents of Crime in JapanOwnership of handguns is forbidden to the public, hunting rifles and ceremonial swords are registered with the police, and the manufacture and sale of firearms are regulated. The production and sale of live and blank ammunition are also controlled, as are the transportation and importation of all weapons. Crimes are seldom committed with firearms, yet knives remain a problem that the government is looking into, especially after the Akihabara massacre.

The regulate firearms and swords (it IS japan) there and do so effectively as to even regulate the production and importing of them.

In fact the murder rates between Japan and the USA are very drastic which I quoted below:

New Orleans' average annual per capita homicide rate of 52 murders per 100,000 people overall (1980–2012) is the highest of U.S. cities with average annual homicide totals that were among the top 10 highest during the same period.


In 1989 Japan experienced 1.3 robberies and 1.1 murders per 100,000 population. 
 If you consider this with some fuzzy math I did assuming that 1.1 murder count for every year from 1980 to 2012 (32 years total) and multiplied that 1.1 with it.  You got for 32 years in all of Japan... 35.2 murders per 100,000 people total in that time.   The average of that same time for JUST a single major city in the US was still 16.8 out of 100,000 people!!!  Just 1 Major city in the USA... imagine that thru all our major cities.


The main point of this scattered political but not blog is that I was blown away, simply after watching the most chill arrest I've ever seen on a video, at just how vast of a leap Japan has on the USA, which claims to be the superpower over all including Japan.  Yet our crime rate doesn't even come close and the fact that part of Japan's success is thru something we are arguing about right now.

And on my own author notes; personally I don't own, use, condone guns.  I personally feel our society has eliminated viable need for guns.  We don't hunt for food.. only sport.  We have officials to control crime and while their response time is lacking compared to Japan's 2 cops for every corner methods....  They are suppose to be here to protect us.. and give a feel of care.  Something i feel we have lost overall now days.. a fear of our police.  Its become a game to some to oust cops; instead we should respect them and mildly fear them and their training against bad things we might wanna try to do.

Again.... I have no political stake in any of this.. I don't vote and Will not until we can start caring about the dying and lost souls of our own nation.. not gay peoples rights and guns and health care.

Health care should be free as other countries have it; Gay people have the right to do as they wish... stop trying to force them into your little boxes of perfect; Guns are the last thing we need to worry about being a election winning topic; lets fix our economy and provide to our homeless and less fortunate and stop doping up our food chain!

Umm eyeah...  Okay off to find snawkz!

cit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan
cit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_America

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