&gt; but an embarrassing overall violent crime rate.<p>Violent crime in UK is much lower than in US. UK crime statistics are more robust than US crime stats.<p>In particular: The US uses a different definition of violent crime.  The US doesn&#x27;t bother to include a bunch of crime that the UK does include.<p>United Kingdom: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homeoffice.gov.uk&#x2F;publications&#x2F;science-research-statistics&#x2F;research-statistics&#x2F;crime-research&#x2F;hosb1011&#x2F;hosb1011?view=Binary" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homeoffice.gov.uk&#x2F;publications&#x2F;science-research-s...</a><p>“Violent crime contains a wide range of offences, from minor assaults such as pushing and shoving that result in no physical harm through to serious incidents of wounding and murder. Around a half of violent incidents identified by both BCS and police statistics involve no injury to the victim.” (THOSB – CEW, page 17, paragraph 1.)<p>United States: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;cjis&#x2F;ucr&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&#x2F;2011&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s.-2011&#x2F;violent-crime&#x2F;violent-crime" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;cjis&#x2F;ucr&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&#x2F;2011&#x2F;c...</a><p>“In the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR Program as those offenses which involve force or threat of force.”   (FBI – CUS – Violent Crime)<p>In the UK a push that results in no physical harm could be counted as a violent crime.  That same push, resulting in the same lack of physical harm, would not be counted as a violent crime in the US.<p>&gt; your constables that are a hour out.<p>That&#x27;s weirdly wrong too.