>There are no speed cameras.
There are less speed cameras per mile in the USA but they do exist. They have loads of red light cameras too.
Wikipedia has data from 2008. More up to date is:
http://poi.gps-data-team.com/united_states/safety/
>There are no drunken yobs throwing up in the streets.
You've not been to Mobile, Alabamha, then? or The Bronx? or 'the projects' in Galveston or Detroit? or, at the other end of the social scale, to Newport RI?