Personal crime summary Victimization rate:
An estimated 4.4% of persons aged 15 years and over (889,800) experienced one or more selected personal crimes in the 2020-21 reference period, including:
2.0% (412,500) who experienced physical assault
2.2% (444,400) who experienced face-to-face threatened assault
0.8% (167,300) who experienced non face-to-face threatened assault
0.3% (54,200) who experienced robbery
0.5% (104,100) who experienced sexual assault (persons aged 18 years and over)
Household crime summary Victimization rate:
An estimated 9.4% of households (919,500) experienced one or more selected household crimes in the 2020-21 reference period, including:
1.7% (171,600) that experienced break-in
1.8% (179,400) that experienced attempted break-in
0.5% (47,100) that experienced motor vehicle theft
2.5% (242,400) that experienced theft from a motor vehicle
4.0% (394,600) that experienced malicious property damage
2.2% (218,200) that experienced other theft
Physical assault:
An estimated 2.0% of persons (412,500) experienced physical assault.
Multiple victimization:
Of those who experienced physical assault:
53% (217,500) experienced two or more incidents
Women (58%) were more likely to experience two or more incidents than men (47%)
Face-to-Face threatened assault:
An estimated 2.2% of persons (444,400) experienced face-to-face threatened assault.
Multiple victimization:
Of those who experienced face-to-face threatened assault:
54% (238,400) experienced two or more incidents
men (55%) and women (54%) were about as likely to experience two or more incidents
Sexual Assault:
An estimated 0.5% of persons aged 18 years and over (104,100) experienced sexual assault.
Americans have Right to use weapons for Self-Defense (such as firearms) to protect themselves, their families, their friends, & their property.
American gun owners take their Responsibility very seriously.....Americans are their own 'First Responders', & they take Self-Defense as their own 'Personal Responsibility'.
Why? Because they are not foolish enough to believe that the Government can defend them in their time of desperate need......the police, unless around the block, won't be able to respond to a citizen under assault until about 5-10 minutes AFTER the assault takes place....
Australians have no such Right to use weapons for Self-Defense. They rely 100% on the Government to defend them. The police, though they respond in about the same time frame the American Cops, the Australian Cops are faced with the same problem......they arrive AFTER the assault takes place & the victim has most probably paid the price of not being able to defend themselves.......
Remember:
26,000,000 people ÷ 85,000 cops = Only 1 cop to protect & defend over 300 to 400 people EACH.