You might notice that there's a lot of European countries with laxer immigration laws that also have lower crime rates too, so don't try that argument either. Especially with Canada next door.
I have brought up several reasons and instances before as to why Europe has lower crime rates than the US. If, as you say, illegal immigration is at an all time low, then the statement as to 'lax immigration laws' and low crime is antithesis to the above statement. Letting people in or blocking people out does not have any correlation with a reduction of crime domestically based.
This is perhaps the reason why I am frustrated. I'll explain that the US has 33k gangs, cite sources, documents, studies, research both European based as well as US based but somehow Europe has everything figured out, every time.
Perhaps Europe has a lower crime rate because there are less people present that commit crimes?
Perhaps there is a direct correlation between drug consumption and criminal activity? Perhaps the reason why is that the majority of the world's narcotic producers [Afghanistan, The Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela - courtesy of the Whitehouse Press secretary] are closer to the US than Europe? Not to mention that the drug market is stronger in the US monetarily, and consumption wise.
Perhaps the UNODC, the FBI, the CIA, are incorrect?
Europe has less prisoners, even if you include Russia in the mix. Even, at the very least, if 30% of the US' prison population is violent, that still makes about 650k violent offenders, at minimum. All of Russia has about just as many prisoners total [courtesy of the World Prison Brief].
There are several different reasons why the US has more violence and more crime, but as always Europe is brought up time and again even though they lack several of the issues that we do. This seems to be the latest excuse as to why Europe has less crime than the US.
Someone please explain to me why it's so magical how somebody with less violent offenders deals with less crime. Crime and violent crime has not diminished over the years, but increased steadily along with the population, however homicide itself has diminished considerably (within the US). So, Europe has less gangs, therefore it is common enough sense as to why they have less crime.
Less criminals, less narcotics, less viagra I made that last one up, I don't know for sure. But there could be a correlation between viagra and twinkie consumption and criminal activity. What I am uncertain of, however, is the rest of Europe's black market economy, but chances are that the US would have stronger pull in terms of trends and growth. Walls and immigration have nothing to do with criminal correlation in affects effecting a much larger issue. The numbers would be negligible in terms of illegal immigration and criminal activity.
But, you know, there's always Singapore and their trafficking laws... but this is all besides the point and has nothing to do with the current campaign. So, illegal immigration is breaking the law, but not inherently violent and not all illegal immigrants are violent but all illegal immigration is, well, illegal.
