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> American cities are the most dangerous in the developed world, by a large margin. Um, can you give a source on that? I rather doubt it's true, but probably d
by glenra 13y ago
> American cities are the most dangerous in the developed world, by a large margin.
Um, can you give a source on that? I rather doubt it's true, but probably depends on what you mean by "most dangerous". (And also perhaps "developed").
Here's an article titled "Violent crime worse in Britain than in US": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25671/Violent-crime-worse-Britain-US.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25671/Violent-crime-...
Or here's PolitiFact:
> For England and Wales, we added together three crime categories: "violence against the person, with injury," "most serious sexual crime," and "robbery." This produced a rate of 775 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
> For the United States, we used the FBI’s four standard categories for violent crime that Bier cited. We came up with a rate of 383 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
[Source: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jun/24/blog-posting/social-media-post-says-uk-has-far-higher-violent-c/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jun/... ]
- stuaxo 13y agoThe Daily Mail is not a good source for, well anything. Already you can see that adding up those categories doesn't make sense as some will overlap (in particular violence and the other two).
- glenra 13y agoSure, there's some overlap between assault, rape, and robbery. But the underlying point is sound. What makes a city dangerous includes one's overall chance of being victimized, not just the chance of being murdered. And if you look at those other categories you'll find the US is not leading the pack.
- rayiner 13y agoFrom the point of view of the police, murders are a much bigger deal than robberies, because they are generally the result of organized violence.