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The last one is funny because Miami barely has any Asians!
Yes, but apparently Min-hyun and Wei have been living out their lives there without being victimized, so yeah, that's why Miami ranks so high. If either of them ever get mugged, Miami will flip to the top 5 most dangerous for Asians!
I find it interesting that Oklahoma City is in the top 5 most dangerous for everyone except for blacks, and yet it's not in the top 5 overall. How does that happen? Honestly, I was under the impression that OKC was a pretty safe place, in general. Is there really that much more crime there than I thought?
Here's the full list of cities and the overall metro homicide rates. Most dangerous to safest.
1. New Orleans, LA 19.82
2. Memphis, TN 15.65
3. Baltimore, MD 12.50
4. Birmingham, AL 12.12
5. St. Louis, MO 10.77
6. Detroit, MI 10.76
7. Jacksonville, FL 9.52
8. Milwaukee, WI 8.89
9. Kansas City, MO 8.88
10. Indianapolis, IN 8.79
11. Chicago, IL 8.57
12. Cleveland, OH 8.55
13. Philadelphia, PA 8.35
14. Oklahoma City, OK 8.14
15. Louisville, KY 7.96
16. Richmond, VA 7.76
17. Virginia Beach, VA 7.55
18. Miami, FL 7.47
19. Houston, TX 7.21
20. Atlanta, GA 7.13
21. Las Vegas, NV 6.90
22. San Antonio, TX 6.71
23. Tucson, AZ 6.14
23. Pittsburgh, PA 6.14
25. Columbus, OH 6.11
26. Buffalo, NY 6.07
27. Orlando, FL 5.93
28. Charlotte, NC 5.91
29. Phoenix, AZ 5.82
30. Riverside, CA 5.69
31. Nashville, TN 5.68
32. San Francisco, CA 5.55
33. Cincinnati, OH 5.53
34. Tampa, FL 5.28
35. Sacramento, CA 5.11
36. Dallas, TX 5.10
37. Los Angeles, CA 5.08
38. Washington DC 4.86
39. Rochester, NY 4.44
40. Denver, CO 4.25
41. New York, NY 3.77
42. Hartford, CT 3.58
43. Raleigh, NC 3.22
43. San Diego, CA 3.22
43. Seattle, WA 3.22
46. San Jose, CA 3.09
47. Austin, TX 2.82
47. Salt Lake City, UT 2.82
49. Portland, OR 2.75
50. Minneapolis, MN 2.69
51. Grand Rapids, MI 2.54
52. Providence, RI 2.53
53. Boston, MA 2.12
Assuming the OP is basing the cities/metros according to homicide rates by race/ethnicity, Chicago as #1 safest for Asians has a lot of merit, I believe. You never hear about Asians of any type(Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, etc) being killed here. I only heard of an Indian college student being killed in a gas station robbery in a suburb back in Dec.2017. The Asian homicide rate in Chicago proper is probably 0 or very close to it. Asians(especially the Chinese and Indian community) are thriving here.
Last edited by Chicagoland60426; 08-16-2018 at 10:38 AM..
I'd also argue that you need to look at more than homicide rates to determine whether a city is considered "safe" or not.
Precisely. Homicides only account for a very small percantage of violent crimes amd even then as spoken before it's predominately in the shady networks within poor neighborhoods. A whole metro which covers large areas is going have a dynamic range.
Assuming the OP is basing the cities/metros according to homicide rates by race/ethnicity, Chicago as #1 safest for Asians has a lot of merit, I believe. You never hear about Asians of any type(Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, etc) being killed here. I only heard of an Indian college student being killed in a gas station robbery in a suburb back in Dec.2017. The Asian homicide rate in Chicago proper is probably 0 or very close to it. Asians(especially the Chinese and Indian community) are thriving here.
Yeah, I've realized how rare it seems to hear about any Asian or white homicides in the city, especially random/violent deaths.
The combined rate falls between 2.0/100,000 and 3.0/100,000 on any given year. Many of those tend to be domestic as well since the overall numbers are so low. The news seems shocked and people are all shook if a white person is actually gunned down in the city or dies in a robbery, it's just so rare. Then they report hundreds of other murders on the west and south sides and it just comes off like statistics.
Besides the whole methodology of these lists (as with all lists, rankings, etc.) why the focus on race and so forth? Seems like unnecessary racial baiting and obsession.
Besides the whole methodology of these lists (as with all lists, rankings, etc.) why the focus on race and so forth? Seems like unnecessary racial baiting and obsession.
Well let's say you're a white person and you want a safe city to live for yourself. You would be better off living in a city like New York or Boston rather than a city like Oklahoma City or Las Vegas.
Yeah, I've realized how rare it seems to hear about any Asian or white homicides in the city, especially random/violent deaths.
The combined rate falls between 2.0/100,000 and 3.0/100,000 on any given year. Many of those tend to be domestic as well since the overall numbers are so low. The news seems shocked and people are all shook if a white person is actually gunned down in the city or dies in a robbery, it's just so rare. Then they report hundreds of other murders on the west and south sides and it just comes off like statistics.
The whole country is like that with some exceptions
I'd also argue that you need to look at more than homicide rates to determine whether a city is considered "safe" or not.
Cool, please generate that list for us.
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