Yeah, I am not too sure I would trust the UN stats. They were so nice to us in S.E. Asia, they told our enemy all of our secret mission plans. How convenient. Got oil? Want food? Here is the breakdown of their seventh report on France.
Europe: France: Crime
Acquitted: 39,875 (2000) [6th of 49]
(per capita): 0.66 per 1000 people per 1000 people [14th of 49]
Adults prosecuted: 54,224 (2000) [19th of 33]
(per capita): 0.90 per 1000 people per 1000 people [30th of 33]
Assault victims: 1.4% (1999)% [8th of 21]
Assaults: 106,484 (2000) [9th of 58]
(per capita): 1.76 per 1000 people per 1000 people [25th of 57]
Believe in police efficiency: 65% [13th of 17]
Bribe payers index: 5.2 [13th of 19]
Bribery victims: 1.3% (1999)% [5th of 17]
Burglaries: 370,993 (2000) [5th of 55]
(per capita): 6.16 per 1000 people per 1000 people [18th of 54]
Car thefts: 301,539 (2000) [4th of 56]
(per capita): 5.01 per 1000 people per 1000 people [6th of 55]
Convicted: 1,069,553 (2000) [4th of 57]
(per capita): 17.77 per 1000 people per 1000 people [7th of 56]
Death penalty - abolition date: 1981 [47th of 69]
Death penalty - last executed: 1977 [15th of 56]
Drug offences: 176.1 per 100,000 people [14th of 36]
Females prosecuted: 7,201 (2000) [17th of 33]
(per capita): 0.11 per 1000 people per 1000 people [29th of 33]
Frauds: 142,583 (2000) [4th of 62]
(per capita): 2.36 per 1000 people per 1000 people [11th of 61]
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for and consumer of South American cocaine, Southwest Asian heroin, and European synthetics
Judges and Magistrates: 6,774 (2000) [3rd of 46]
(per capita): 0.11 per 1000 people per 1000 people [20th of 45]
Murders: 1051 (2000) [12th of 63]
(per capita): 0.01 per 1000 people per 1000 people [41st of 62]
Perception of safety - Burglary: 43% [16th of 17]
Perception of safety - Walking in dark: 77% [11th of 15]
Police: 124,284 (2000) [7th of 48]
(per capita): 2.06 per 1000 people per 1000 people [33rd of 48]
Prisoners: 56,957 prisoners [23rd of 164]
(per $ GDP): 0.03 prisoners per $1 million prisoners per $1000000 [135th of 161]
Prisoners - Female: 3.8%% [73rd of 134]
Prisoners - Foreign prisoners: 21.4%% [25th of 86]
Prisoners - Per capita: 95 per 100,000 people [95th of 164]
Prisoners - Pre-trial detainees: 37.4%% [54th of 143]
Prisoners - Share of prison capacity filled: 124.7%% [55th of 128]
Property crime victims: 8.7% (1999)% [9th of 21]
Rape victims: 0.7% (1999)% [10th of 21]
Rapes: 8,458 (2000) [8th of 66]
(per capita): 0.14 per 1000 people per 1000 people [15th of 65]
Reporting to police: 49% [10th of 17]
Robberies: 24,304 (2000) [16th of 64]
(per capita): 0.40 per 1000 people per 1000 people [38th of 64]
Robbery victims: 1.1% (1999)% [7th of 21]
Software piracy losses: $2,311 [3rd of 84]
Software piracy rate: 45% [58th of 84]
Suicide rates in ages 15-24: 10.3 per 100000 people [9th of 17]
Suicide rates in ages 25-34: 21.3 per 100000 people [3rd of 17]
Suicide rates in ages 35-44: 28.5 per 100000 people [2nd of 17]
Suicide rates in ages 45-54: 28.4 per 100000 people [4th of 17]
Suicide rates in ages 55-64: 26.8 per 100000 people [6th of 17]
Suicide rates in ages 65-74: 31.2 per 100000 people [4th of 17]
Suicide rates in ages above 75: 48.0 per 100000 people [3rd of 17]
Total crime victims: 21.4% (1999)% [13th of 21]
Total crimes: 3,771,849 (2000) [4th of 61]
(per capita): 62.67 per 1000 people per 1000 people [14th of 60]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines: 144 unpaid parking fines [7th of 116]
(per $ GDP): 9.24e-05 unpaid parking fines per $1 million unpaid parking fines per [76th of 115]
(per capita): 2.39 unpaid parking fines per 1 million people unpaid parking fines per [46th of 116]
Sources: Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin.; UN International Crime Victims' Survey; Transparency International; Last updated: 01/04/03; UNODC; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief.; Software piracy study - Business Software Association of Australia; GECD Society at a Glance 2001, Statistical Annex Table D3.; Mr Lennox-Boyd's reports to the House of Commons; recorded in the House of Commons Hansard for 03-11-92..