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about Glasgow and religion: Yes fights and stabbings take place because of religion (every time there's a celtic/rangers game for example) but it's usually just an excuse. It reminds me of the famous Glasgow pub line: "What you looking at?" "Sorry I wasn't looking at you" "You callin me a liar..." e...

Philly got about 1,500,000 people n around 400 murders http://philadelphia.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm If that's right then the average number of murders per 100,000 in philly is about 26 as compared to Glasgow's 21 not a hell of a lot of difference if you ask me. I reckon the murder rate in the US ...

What about Ohio? I don't know if it's as ghetto as this 1 old film I saw based in OH, but the place was a straight dumb w/a bunch of whites. I was in Cleveland, OH in Euclid and I noticed that though it was run down I wouldn't compare it with the likes of San Bernardino or the equivalent shithole n...

The common denominator is definitely poverty. A man has to have some status. If you're poor and you have no hope of getting anywhere in the normal system for whatever reason of course you will resort to violence to get respect. That's what it's really all about: getting respect and admiration from t...

That is true and glasgow is never mentioned by americans when talking about crime in UK the same can be said about Baltimore,Philadelphia,DC,Detroit and Camden when Europeans talk about US crime. its almost always about LA,New York and to a lesser extent Chicago. Not true. Everyone knows DC, Detroi...

What I've noticed while reading this forum are two things: 1. The level of ignorance from our American brethren about gangs in the UK and 2. The trolls who are just trying to get a rise. Anyone who has been to the UK and especially Glasgow knows that there are gangs in every part of the UK and that ...