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It’s very misleading because people don’t live in entire cities, the live and work in specific neighborhoods in cities. Moreover, homicides are heavily concentrated in certain neighborhoods in most cities, usually the poor ones. They’re not evenly and universally dispersed. And finally, homicide victims and killers both, I’d wager, are disproportionately young men.
So it’s more than possible for a black man (or woman) to live a perfectly happy life with little thought of being a crime victim in Baltimore or Detroit, or for a Chinese-American to fall victim to a killer in New York or Chicago — all depending on age, gender, income, and neighborhood location.
In short, lists like these are very broad generalizations that don’t really have a lot to do with how people actually live.
This is metro not city proper. Boston and Providence proper are not the most safest for anybody. Especially not for blacks the homicide rate in Boston was 8.7 last year compared to roughly 3 for Los Angeles and New York almost 3 times higher.
This is metro not city proper. Boston and Providence proper are not the most safest for anybody. Especially not for blacks the homicide rate in Boston was 8.7 last year compared to roughly 3 for Los Angeles and New York almost 3 times higher.
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?
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