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No U.S. Soldiers Held in Hundreds of Crimes
U.S. troops stationed in Korea were reportedly involved in 780 criminal acts, three of them homicides, between 2000 and August 2005, yet not a single one of them has been brought to book here, Seoul Metropolitan Police data show. Statistics announced on Monday by Democratic Labor Party lawmaker Lee Young-soon during an audit of the police show U.S. Forces Korea personnel implicated in three murders, 19 robberies, 149 thefts and other illegal activities, but none were in police custody.

After two middle school students were killed by a U.S. armored vehicle in 2002, the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) was revised to make it obligatory for a U.S. government representative to report within one hour of a U.S. soldier being arrested, but this did little to improve the way investigations were conducted.

Lee proposed creating a department that would handle all USFK-related business and boost police personnel in areas where U.S. forces are concentrated and crimes are frequent.

U.S. soldiers also have a record of not paying traffic fines. According to police data, they paid only some 53.2 percent of their fines last year, and a poor 36.6 percent through July this year.
Chosun Ilbo (September 26, 2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200509/200509260010.html

[Sooke]

780
- 3
- 19
-149
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609 other crimes. What are they....traffic tickets???

number of us soldiers in korea 37000
number of murders 3
that's one murder for every 12 334 soldiers.

but, that's over 5 years, so should that be 37 000*5/3?
that would make it one murder for every 61 667 soldiers.

There were 955 murders in Korea in 2000. Assuming a Korean population of 45 million, that would be one murder for every 47 120 Koreans. (US Population in 2000 was about 290 million and they had 12 658 murders, which is one murder for every 23 305 people.)

Therefore, we can state that the US soldiers are less murderous than their compatriots back home AND less murderous than the Koreans. So what's the problem?















And to think I got a D in stats!!!

[Sooke]

Let's look at embezzlements, shall we?

Korea 19,186 (1999) (0.39 per 1000 people or 1 for every 2,345people)
US 17,300 (2000) (0.05 per 1000 people or 1 for every 16,763 people)

So if I were to write a newspaper article saying that Koreans have almost 8 times as many embezzlements than the US, do you think that netizens would shut down my website?

(I would do more crime stats, but it looks like nationmaster wants me to pay 'em or something.)

[antoniothegreat]

you mean all americans arent devils, devoted to corrupting and destroying innocent korean society???