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Not even 66th of all US cities, only of the hundred biggest by population. Of all US cities last year it was no worse than 120th per capita and 140th by total[1

• gfdsgfsdgfs 4y ago
  Why are you comparing San Francisco against cities with completely different demographics? If you compare SF against similar cities, it is far more dangerous. It has almost twice the murder rate of NYC for example.
• midoridensha 4y ago
  It looks pretty dangerous and violent to me. Just having your city (or even your country) on the list in your link is bad. Here's another link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... The US, as a whole, ranks #60, at 6.5 intentional homicides per 100k. This is just under Russia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Yemen, Afghanistan, Paraguay, and Tanzania, and only slightly better than Argentina, Sudan, Tunisia, etc. By contrast, countries like Germany, Ireland, Norway, Italy, Hungary, etc. rank in the 150-160 range with 0.5 to 0.8 per 100k. Here in Japan, we're #181 with only 0.3/100k. From my perspective, SF's murder rate is huge, and the entire US is a violent, "developing" nation. (I put "developing" in quotes because it seems like it's actually going backwards, unlike most developing nations, and the use of "3rd world" here doesn't make logical sense according to its original definition.)