Beyond “grabbing a bite to eat“ being a very different level risk than going out to physically exhaust yourself on foot daily, violent crime per capita in the u

Beyond “grabbing a bite to eat“ being a very different level risk than going out to physically exhaust yourself on foot daily, violent crime per capita in the us is several multiples higher than it is in Australia on average, and it’s not remotely evenly distributed. The place most commonly cited as the most dangerous in Australia is Rockhampton in Queensland and the only numbers I could find were from 10 years ago— 2 murders per 100k, and apparently that’s dropped considerably. By contrast, St. Louis Missouri has about four times as many people and their murder rate is about 68 per 100k. St. Louis has about the same number of murders per year as Australia on a whole. I am quite certain that your experience in a rough neighborhood in Australia is not representative of many of our rough neighborhoods here.