Australia, as a developed country in the west, generally has better security, so how good is it? What is the situation compared with other countries, especially China? Today, the editor of www.51Net, Australia, compares security in Australia and China in terms of rational data, and perceptual feelings of life.
Preferred to look at two more authoritative world-wide data.
- According to the Economist Intelligence Unit`s 2016 Global Peace Index, it ranked 15th, while China`s mainland ranked 120th, with Iceland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand and Portugal ranked the top five;
- According to crime statistics from numbeo, the world`s largest city database website (2016), Australia ranked 63rd and mainland China ranked 88th. The lower the ranking, the better law and order, with the lowest crime rates being South Korea and Singapore, respectively. Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan;
- The United States ranked 103 and 42.
Global Peace Index 2016
The World Peace Index reflects the degree of internal and international conflict, militarization and social security of a given country. It can be seen that Australia, ranked 15th, is far higher than China, ranking 120, and also higher than the United States, ranked 103; The crime rate statistics show the prevalence of crime in a country and show that the crime rate in Australia is higher than in the United States and lower than in mainland China.
We can not help but feel a little strange to see here. In the impression that China has always been in good order, many people have expressed their sense of security as "able to go out for barbecue at night". How can we see from the data that the crime rate is higher than that in Australia? Even higher than the United States, which has been overrun with guns and "dares not go out at night"?
First of all, we must put aside conspiracy theories. These two lists are authoritative in the world, and the methods and sources of assessment are publicly available all over the world. They are not deliberately hacked by Western countries, and the list is not for the Chinese to see. To answer such questions, there are several aspects to look at:
- The caliber of statistics on crime rates varies from country to country. Many small things may not be considered crimes at home, or police stations will not file a case at all, such as small amounts of theft, fraud, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and school bullying. Violent attacks and so on, and in the West will be considered a crime, so it seems that by Western standards, China`s crime rate will be higher;
- Among the crime indicators in China, the murder rate is very low worldwide, much lower than that in the United States, and the proportion of serious violent crimes such as robbery against, rape, terrorist attacks is also relatively low. And ordinary people sense of security often come from these serious crimes, and ignore the theft, fraud, domestic violence, sexual harassment and so on, which are also crimes, ignoring the insecurity that can`t take a child out of sight for a second. And the proportion of these types of crime in China is quite high, it can be said that few Chinese people have not encountered, thus drawing the conclusion that sense of security is high;
- China`s big cities, especially the first and second-tier cities, have relatively good public order, but small cities or towns have much worse security. We have always said that we can go out and have barbecues in the evenings, but in fact, that is only for the big cities. When it comes to small cities or towns, the streets in the evening are also very dangerous. On the Internet, it is the inhabitants of large cities that hold the right to speak more, while the residents of small cities and towns, which account for more than half of the population, are very few. Do not know how to express their views;
- The media blockade in mainland China, in the event of the outbreak of some major malignant cases, except for the local residents, no one else will get any news from the media such as television, newspapers, and so on, and the news spread on the Internet is often quickly blocked by the authorities. Only when the case is solved will it be possible to announce it to the public, in sharp contrast to the 360-degree full-length follow-up by the media in western countries at the time of the crime.
To look at my personal feelings, the editor lived in Shanghai 30 years ago, and the public order in China is already among the highest. In the past 30 years, the editor and his relatives and friends have personally experienced the following crimes:
- Stolen car: editor and friends and relatives have been stolen no less than 20 bicycles, 2 battery cars, 5 electric bottles;
- Theft: no less than 30 final items, such as mobile phones, cameras, PSP, wallets and even jewelry, have been stolen by the editor and friends. It can be said that, in a slightly bustling place, you can carry your wallet, mobile phone and other items in your bag behind you. The probability of being stolen is close to 100%;
- Block robberies: editor himself has not experienced, a friend has experienced 1 time, the number of robberies is not large, but was greatly frightened;
- Car bandits road bully robbery: in recent years, due to the strength of the national crackdown, relatively rare, more than 10 years ago a friend experienced;
- Touch porcelain blackmail: a friend driving met, because not installed CarLog can not say clearly, lost 1000 things;
- Burglary or robbery: editor himself has not experienced, relatives and friends have experienced at least 3 times, from Shanghai such a relatively good security city, the third floor below 100% installation of anti-theft windows can be seen;
- Fraud: every day you can receive fraudulent phone calls, friends who have been cheated by telecommunications, some who have mistakenly entered the pyramid marketing organization, but also some friends, such as QQ, social app, who falsified their identity after being stolen to deceive money. In Sanya, the editor himself experienced an organized and premeditated tour fraud with a division of labor, and lost 3000 yuan; On fraud, the editor is in fact the most want to complain, summed up is to live in the country, can not trust anyone unfamiliar, as long as not careful will be deceived;
- Domestic violence: it is still rare in Shanghai. It is more common in the north and has been experienced by friends.
- Assault and other violent crimes: friends and relatives after a few times, with colleagues, neighbors and other acquaintances, but also with strangers, are caused by very small things;
- And trafficking in women and children, black coal kilns, rape and other common online evil sexual crime, editor and friends have not personally experienced.
Compared to China, the editor has lived in Australia for a shorter period of time, and the opinion given will inevitably be biased. It can only be said that it feels much safer than China. Although there are sometimes vicious cases such as murder, shooting and so on, it is similar to theft, burglary, and burglary. Fraud, domestic violence, trafficking in women and children and other cases are very rare, walking on the road basically do not have to worry about someone to pull out their wallets, whether living in apartments or villas, no one installed anti-theft windows, temporary parking, doors and windows are not closed or worry.
Of course, as in the country, the security situation varies from city to city and from region to region, in general:
- Major cities, especially Sydney and Melbourne, have seen a rapid decline in law and order in recent years as they have received refugees from war-torn countries such as the Middle East, while Canberra, the Australian capital, is currently the most secure city in major cities;
- Gold Coast, Keynes and other tourist cities, due to the high proportion of foreign personnel, bars, night life rich, drunken, public order will become worse;
- Some small inland towns, if the proportion of indigenous people, or a high proportion of young people, the security situation will also be low, especially in Queensland more typical;
- And in the same city, security in different regions is also different, and security in rich areas must be better than in poor areas, and security in aboriginal, Middle Eastern and Vietnamese areas is usually the worst in a city. Most locals don`t go to these places at all, a bit like domestic railway stations. Http://australia51.com/living/ collects Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Gold Coast, Canberra, and so on. Hobart and other major Australian cities in different areas of the evaluation, the security situation is one of the important basis for ranking, usually the higher the evaluation of district security is also better, in the purchase of housing, rental and so on can be referred to.
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