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In the United States any city finishing with such a rate is unthinkable, even our safest cities are at least 3 or 4 per 100,000. Altho if Manhattan and Queens were separate cities they would be like Europe, they often hover between 1.5 and 3 per 100,000
Many cities in Chile actually have European homicide rates, Viña del Mar, Concepcion, La Serena come to mind. Valparaiso is considered dangerous by Chilean standards but it has a homicide rate of 4 per 100,000 which would make it one of the safest cities in the United States and in the Americas as well
I don't have the actual stats but homicides are quite stable in Canada, at around 1.5 per 100,000.
This past year cities like Toronto were a bit on the high side. The normally placid capital city of Ottawa was very high for its standards with 24 murders for 900,000 people so around 2.5 per 100,000 as a rate. It usually has about 10 murders a year.
The province of Quebec (second in population and between a quarter and a fifth of the country) was very low this year and will push the Canadian average down. Montreal with 2 million people had 22 murders so a rate of only 1.1 per 100,000. Quebec City had zero for 600,000 people. My city of Gatineau (275k) also had zero murders.
Cities on the Canadian prairies (Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary) typically have murder rates higher than the Canadian average. 2016 was not an exception.
Wow, that is seriously impressive from Quebec City and Gatineau. Not many places anywhere in the world can manage 0 murders, even the really safe Japanese cities.
Glasgow is the most deadly British city, having a homicide rate of 2.3/100,000 in 2015. It had a homicide rate of 5.5/100,000 in 2005, so that's a big drop for them.
Can't find any figures for other cities.
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