check inside your head for those rotten apples, pal.

as for the facts, i don' t write about crime statistics, I write fiction. But here is a link - I just did a search on " international crime statistics."

http://www.interpol.int/Public/Stati...wnloadList.asp

As you can see, England (a much smaller country, of course) had 850 murders in 2001; the U.S. had over 15,000. Go ahead and look. Obviously the size of the population makes a difference, but trust me, the U.S. violent crime rate is higher than any other developed nation.