The United States leads the world in one very unfortunate statistical category - crime. The truth is that we are not nearly as "moral" and "law abiding" as we would like to think that we are. In fact, more crimes are committed in the United States than anywhere else in the world, and more people are in prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. The U.S. is experiencing an epidemic of murders, rapes and robberies, and that is only going to get worse as the U.S. economy continues to come apart. That is one reason why so many people are stocking up on home and personal security equipment. When people are desperate, they will do things that they never even imagined that they would do. As more people lose their jobs and lose their homes an increasing number of them will turn to crime.
The following are some really sobering statistics about crime in the United States....
*There are nearly 12 million crimes committed in the United States every single year. That is by far the worst in the world. No other country has more than about 6 million reported crimes per year.
*There are currently over 2.2 million people in prison in the United States. The U.S. leads the world in the number of prisoners and in the percentage of the population in (Read More....)
