> Usually big cities I'm surprised to see this is somewhat true in the US. In Canada rural crime rates are higher than urban ones, but that trend doesn't seem

> Usually big cities I'm surprised to see this is somewhat true in the US. In Canada rural crime rates are higher than urban ones, but that trend doesn't seem to hold for the US (per sources below) Of course extrapolating from "average crime rate" to "location of hotspots" might be suspect in both cases... Stats Canada: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2019001/article/00009-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2019001/article... Bloomberg article with some nice graphs, and really good links to sources (at the end of it) - the text focuses on NYC but the second line chart in particular (based off of linked CDC data) does a good job of answering this question: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new-york-city-more-dangerous-than-rural-america https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...