Speaking as a Brit living in Singapore, the idea that Singapore and London are even in the same ballpark when it comes to personal safety is absolutely insane.

Speaking as a Brit living in Singapore, the idea that Singapore and London are even in the same ballpark when it comes to personal safety is absolutely insane. The two cities aren’t even remotely similar. I took a look at the report you mentioned and I think the chart might be misleading you. Yes, the chart does give those rankings. But look at the prose: > As with other pillars, personal security inputs and outputs have a high level of statistical correlation. Within this context, some individual cases differ markedly. On personal security outputs, Singapore scores an average of 97.3, markedly ahead of second place Copenhagen (92.7) and well over the index average (67.2). At the same time, it finishes in 40th place on inputs (51.7), falling below the average (57.3). Although the most extreme case, several other Asian cities, notably Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul and Taipei, have much lower input than output scores. What’s all this about inputs and outputs? Well inputs are the effort a city puts into promoting personal security, and outputs are how good the personal security actually is. Here are the inputs for personal security: - Use of data-driven techniques for crime - Gun regulation and enforcement - a) Threat of terrorism - b) Threat of military conflict - c) Threat of civil unrest - a) Police personnel per capita - b) Prosecution personnel per capita - c) Professional judges or magistrate personnel per capita - Expenditure on social security - a) Laws on domestic violence - b) Laws on sexual harassment And here are the outputs for personal security: - a) Prevalence of petty crime - b) Prevalence of violent crime - Organised crime - Severity of terrorist attacks - Deaths from substance use disorders - Level of corruption - Enforceability of contracts - a) Income inequality levels - b) Share of population in vulnerable employment - a) Female homicide rates - b) Prevalence of domestic violence In short, the report you are citing is saying that not only is Singapore by far the safest city, but in fact it’s the safest despite putting comparatively little effort into it. This is what other commenters here mean when they complain that a lot of the criticism of Singapore here is from afar without experiencing or understanding the place. Anybody who has spent time in both London and Singapore would think that calling them similar in terms of personal safety is crazy.