Americans should be thankful they live in a country that takes crime seriously and is fighting it with growing success. Not so long ago, one source of anti-Americanism in Europe was the belief that crime was out of control in the U.S. But things have changed significantly: U.S. crime rates now compare favorably with Europe's--and unlike Europe's, they are going down, not up. These disparities are the result of government policies more than …showed first 75 words of 882 total…

…showed last 75 words of 882 total…the same time an enormous new campaign has been launched by Scotland Yard to deal with so-called hate crimes, most of which constitute spoken words that the politically correct claim are offensive to minorities. The treatment of crime in Britain shows a historic shift away from the protection of life and property toward the pursuit of ideological ends. This is one of the reasons I advise young people nowadays to immigrate to the U.S.