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Old 07-29-2021, 10:15 AM
 
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Don't jinx us now.
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:18 AM
 
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^ outdated. No way NYC is currently safer than Boston.

Statistically is may still be, but they (NYC) has always manipulated their data. From what I hear, I would feel safer in Boston right now.
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:19 AM
 
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Westwood, MA
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^ outdated. No way NYC is currently safer than Boston.
That's the most recent data that Wikipedia has. If you have more recent data from city-data acceptable sources, feel free to share.
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Westwood, MA
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^ outdated. No way NYC is currently safer than Boston.
Let's look at 2020 shootings and homicides:

City / Shootings / Murders / Population / Shooting Rate (/100k) / Murder Rate (/100k)
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NYC / 1531 / 462 / 8253313 / 18.6 / 5.60
BOS / 276 / 57 / 684379 / 40.3 / 8.33

NYC seems to be lower on both counts in 2020. Maybe 2021?
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Baltimore
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13-year-old girl charged with stabbing Boston police officer in Mattapan during struggle
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:46 AM
 
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I bet that makes you happy
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:50 AM
 
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^ outdated. No way NYC is currently safer than Boston.
If you are talking about 2020 I don't know, but in 2017 Boston had the violent crime rate of the Bronx.

https://criminaljustice.cityofnewyor...te-by-borough/

I walked around both Boston and New York day and night and I never felt terribly unsafe. New Orleans is the place where walking around I felt the most unsafe, but it was night and a very long walk away from the center.
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:50 AM
 
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Let's look at 2020 shootings and homicides:

City / Shootings / Murders / Population / Shooting Rate (/100k) / Murder Rate (/100k)
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NYC / 1531 / 462 / 8253313 / 18.6 / 5.60
BOS / 276 / 57 / 684379 / 40.3 / 8.33

NYC seems to be lower on both counts in 2020. Maybe 2021?

You also have to consider how many shootings were reported vs. unreported, was the person shot then died 3 weeks later in the hospital as a result of that wound counted as a "murder" (all things that NYC is notorious at fudging). And how well do the "statistics" translate to the actual safety of the average person? But I also acknowledge, that this is City-"Data" and what's on paper is all we really have to go by. I would like to see 2021 YTD numbers for both cities, compared with this time 2020.
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Old 07-29-2021, 10:55 AM
 
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You also have to consider how many shootings were reported vs. unreported, was the person shot then died 3 weeks later in the hospital as a result of that wound counted as a "murder" (all things that NYC is notorious at fudging). And how well do the "statistics" translate to the actual safety of the average person? But I also acknowledge, that this is City-"Data" and what's on paper is all we really have to go by. I would like to see 2021 YTD numbers for both cities, compared with this time 2020.
I think the enormous difference in population (over 10-fold) may skew the data somehow. Like, Boston may get more crime from the suburbs while in NYC this may not be an issue because the suburbs are so far away?
How is the violent crime situation in Boston suburbs vs NYC suburbs? Doesn't NYC have some dreadful town just outside the city limits?
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