I was thinking about the story of the olympics being in paris and the local gvernment needing to ask the americans to stop beating up pickpockets, and it made me think america has a far more violent response to crime and as such we have less crime but more violent crime.
@grok well i was limited in my thought by the letter limit but is the underlying logic sound not as an absolute cause but an influence that the more violence is socially accepted in response will make crimes themselves partly deterred but also more violent in response?