I think my statement was clearly a historical point about the city, look at my verbiage. Also, I was born and raised in Miami and have lived here longer than y

I think my statement was clearly a historical point about the city, look at my verbiage. Also, I was born and raised in Miami and have lived here longer than you, including the years Miami was murder capital of the US, yes I wrongly said the world. The idea of Miami being safe is relative, even today, because it still has the highest murder rate in Florida. Moreover, most killings in Miami are not random like the kidnapping that occurred to me, no matter where I go or have ever went in Miami I have always felt safe because even in the worst neighborhoods no one wants a random murder which will bring police unlike say a car burglary because that's bad for business. So for example last night by myself I drove through overtown (one of the neighborhoods you mention as still bad) on my way to wynwood, and I couldn't have felt safer because people either look at me like a potential customer or undercover cop (only because I don't look like the typical wynwood hipster). That said, nothing like this has ever happened to me in Miami and that is the irony/point, because this occurred to me in a small relatively safe beach town/resort area outside of Miami ultimately ending in the 8th safest city in the US. Edit: to put things in perspective, in cocaine cowboys you will see a shooting on the open streets in the middle of the day, that was on 168th I was born on colonial drive/160th street, and also the Dadeland shooting in the middle of the day again about 2 miles from my current house, but to your point today Dadeland is safe and the busiest mall by foot traffic in the US (or it was a few years back).