Haaaaa! That's awesome.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
They seem to weight things differently than I might. I'd believe Tokyo is generally a safe place to be, and the top 10 or 15 seems like they are generally reasonable choices. After that, not as much. Karachi? Over Houston? I'd walk naked through the worst neighborhood in Houston before I'd go much anywhere in Karachi. Maybe I don't know what I am talking about, but . . .

That's all I needed to see. HA!

What a joke.

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Originally posted by bobandmikako:

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Originally posted by 12131:
L.A. and Chicago......

Apparently personal security doesn't carry much weight.

I wonder how much we paid to get on that list...

I don't know anything about the extra-national cities on that list, but I would guess that the population of those cities plays a role. In particular, they do so in the form of rates and crime rates. In other words, crime per unit capita which would be an indicator of how dangerous a city is.

Here's a list of some of the U.S. cities with the highest murder rates, with their corresponding murder counts (from the FBI - Uniform Crime Report). You can see that while Chicago has the highest number of murders in that list, it ranks pretty low, because of it's murder rate. It's the large population there that washes out the high number of murders. In comparison, you can look at smaller cities like Monroe, LA and Savannah, GA, with far higher murder rates, but a much lower casualty count.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-t...-2015/tables/table-6

Detroit:
	murders: 339
	murder rate: 19.3 

New Orleans:
	murders: 204
	murder rate: 16.3

Monroe, LA: 
	murders: 27
	murder rate: 15.1
 
Savannah, GA:
	murders: 57
	murder rate: 15.0
 
Philadelphia, PA:  
	murders: 316
	murder rate: 14.8
 
Salinas, CA:
	murders: 40
	murder rate: 13.8

Baltimore: 
	murders: 367
	murder rate: 13.1 
 
Pine Bluff, AR 
	murders: 12
	murder rate: 12.8

Gary, IN: 
	murders: 82
	murder rate: 11.9

Memphis: 
	murders: 152
	murder rate: 11.5

Baton Rouge:
	murders: 92
	murder rate: 11.1

St. Louis, MO: 
	murders: 294
	murder rate: 10.5
 
Chicago:
	murders: 561
	murder rate: 7.7 

Washington, DC; Arlington, Alexandria, VA: 
	murders: 291
	murder rate: 6.0

It one thing to look at the stats and numbers for murders in our cities. The real story lies in the stats and numbers for felonious and or aggravated assault.
If you die as a result of a criminal act, it is reported as murder.
If you live, its aggravated assault which gets much less attention.
One of the reasons aggravated / felonious assaults have drastically increased is our hospitals have gotten really good at treating GSW victims!

Rio? I lived in that hellhole of a country for three decades, and there is no way Rio is on the top 40 safest cities in the world. That research is c___.

Karachi, Mexico City, and Jo'burg are all on the list? Stop. Just... stop.

I received "danger pay" the last time I set foot in Karachi. It was only 30% then. It's 35% now. For perspective, Beirut-- when the smoking ruins of the power plant overlooking the city (Israel had just sent a RocketGram a week or so earlier) were still visible from the airport-- only got me 20%.

Mexico City and Johannesburg are both cesspools, and that's before ANY commentary on the U.S. wastelands on the list.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by bobandmikako:

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Originally posted by 12131:
L.A. and Chicago......

Apparently personal security doesn't carry much weight.

I wonder how much we paid to get on that list...

Probably used the soda tax money