The thing about high murder rates, at least in American cities, is that it's mostly gangs fighting each other over selling drugs. If you're not part of the drug

The thing about high murder rates, at least in American cities, is that it's mostly gangs fighting each other over selling drugs. If you're not part of the drug trade, your odds of being murdered are not that much greater than anywhere else (stray bullets are a concern). Property crime, on the other hand, affects a much broader swath of the population.