Here we go again…

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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      1 year ago

      Never been to Glasgow then?

      Nope I haven’t… Been all over Germany and Poland, also incidentally to Romania and Ireland in a very limited fashion. But I did eventually find an answer to my own question…

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_Kingdom

      In 2018 there were 4,629 criminal gangs and syndicates in Britain, employing 33,598 professional gangsters.

      Which translates to about 5 per 10000 people are in a gang in Britain…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_population

      an estimated 1.4 million in 33,000 gangs in 2011.[1][2][3] About 900,000 gang members lived “within local communities across the country”, and about 147,000 were in U.S. prisons or jails in 2009.[4]

      Which translates to about… 42 per 10000 people are in a gang here in USA…

      So a 5-6times increase in homicide lines up basically perfectly.

      Edit: whoops used the wrong number initially… it’s much higher…