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Safest City in US < Most violent anywhere else. Johannesburg? Rio? Manila? Bogota? London? Honiara?
by hugh 18y ago
Safest City in US < Most violent anywhere else.
Johannesburg? Rio? Manila? Bogota? London? Honiara?
- run4yourlives 18y agoYou missed my point. It's all relative.
- hugh 18y agoWhat is relative to what, precisely?
- run4yourlives 18y agoHow "safe" a city is to whatever you're comparing it to. You can make pretty much anywhere look safe just as easy as you can make anywhere look unsafe. Studies like this are virtually meaningless. I'm surprised I've being downmodded so much, I figured the crowd at hacker news would be a little less reactionary than that.
- hugh 18y agoYou're being downmodded for making assertions which are either false or meaningless. I can't quite figure out which just yet. In case you're still under the impression that the US is a particularly high-crime country, check out http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/images/graph05.jpg http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/images/graph05.jpg. The grey bars show that the US is safer than an awful lot of other developed countries including the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland (!), Switzerland (!), Belgium and Australia. And that's not even counting undeveloped countries, which tend to have much higher crime than developed ones.
- run4yourlives 18y agoIt doesn't say which crimes. Many places outside of the US have a high degree of property crimes compared to violent crimes. I wouldn't consider property crimes like vandalism to reflect a degree of safety though. I could use murder rates alone and show opposite results. That's my point though. "Safety" is unmeasurable, really, because it is a perspective.