Crime in China

Elsewhere in the Sinoblogosphere today, Dan Harris at the always interesting China Law Blog has a good post on the scant amount of official data on crime in China, raising questions about the accountability of statistics bureaux and the suspiciously high “cracked” murder case rate – which happens to match the Ministry of Public Security’s “required” solving rate quite closely. (How do they do that?) Regardless of how reliable the numbers are, Harris notes that crime rates certainly compare favorably to those in the US.