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Sweetie, I know you have a crush on Chicago, but Americans still feel safer in Chicago compared to Los Angeles. Even the LA residents don't feel as safe when asked about it
24 Chicago 3.73
25 Philadelphia 3.70
26 Houston 3.59
27 Memphis 3.54
28 Washington, D.C. 3.54
29 New York City 3.48 30 Los Angeles 3.39
31 New Orleans 3.35
32 Dallas/Fort Worth 3.23
33 Miami 3.23
34 Atlanta 2.99
35 Baltimore 2.92
If you can combat this with something other than "dude, no one reports murders in Mexico City" I'll revise my ranking. The truth is, DF has largely been spared from the Mexican drug wars. Not completely, but it isnt Sinaloa either. As such, the murder rate is less than half that of Chicago's.
The Pacific Northwest has a good reputation nationwide--the two most popular of the 21 prominent cities we asked about in our national poll last weekend are Seattle and Portland, OR. 57% of American voters see Seattle favorably and only 14% unfavorably, edging out Portland (52-12) by three points on the margin.
The most unpopular is Detroit, which only 22% see positively and 49% negatively. Americans have net-negative impressions of only two other of these cities, and both are in California: Oakland (21-39) and Los Angeles (33-40). In February, PPP found California to be the least popular state in the union. It does have the 11th most popular city, though: San Francisco (48-29).
Keep crying? I'm not the one attempting to make myself feel better by posting opinion polls, including one that is completely unrelated to the subject of crime. That would be you, chief.
Blah blah...still it doesn't change the fact that Americans do feel less safe in Los Angeles than Chicago (according to the survey)
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Keep crying? I'm not the one attempting to make myself feel better by posting opinion polls, including one that is completely unrelated to the subject of crime. That would be you, chief.
If you can combat this with something other than "dude, no one reports murders in Mexico City" I'll revise my ranking. The truth is, DF has largely been spared from the Mexican drug wars. Not completely, but it isnt Sinaloa either. As such, the murder rate is less than half that of Chicago's.
This was all over the Chicago news but thanks for posting the link anyway. It does seem odd to compare 222 square miles of Chicago to 1600 square miles of Sao Paulo or 600 square miles of Mexico City. Mexico City proper has almost as many people as Chicago's urbanized area. Chicago's crime is heavily concentrated in certain south and west side neighborhoods so those stats are a bit misleading in those cases. There's no doubt that those other cities are much safer than Chicago though.
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Our weed is pretty damn good though. No doubt.
I know because I've smoked plenty of it. I have friends in Los Angeles and they always have the best.
Your taking facts from mostly around border towns and applying it to the whole. Mexico City hasn't seen much of that. I read a report not to long ago where some Mexico City citizens even believed that the whole war on drugs thing was probably made up by the government to pocket the money because they saw so little of the action. It's like if Mexicans took the Colorado shooting and all the bomb threats that happen and said that Chicago is unsafe because of it.
I think it's a pretty well-known fact that Mexico is flooding the US with meth, cocaine and other drugs. Something like 80% of the meth imported to the United States comes from Mexico. The drug cartels there are quite real and extremely violent. The corruption is overt and startling. You can't really compare the two. The economy of Mexico City is smaller than Chicago's depite being a much larger city. Where there is poverty there is crime. In terms of economic development, Mexico City has a LONG way to go before it can be compared to Chicago in that respect.
Well, as long as visitors/residents still feel safer in Chicago than Los Angeles, I am fine with that
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Facts > opinion polls
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