Then-Broccoli-823 t1_isjxn62 wrote on October 16, 2022 at 3:35 PM

Reply to comment by PanAmargo in Safest cities in America for 2022 - DC is 168 out of 182 by Enjolras55

I mean, you can literally google this and see that it is blatantly not true. The list of cities by homicide rate is almost exclusively Latin American. There are 4 US cities on the list, and DC is not one of them. There is more recent data available, but the only other US city that pops up on that list is New Orleans, which is famously not Washington DC.

PanAmargo t1_iskaeby wrote on October 16, 2022 at 5:00 PM

Homicide rates per 100,000 (data from 2019 was easiest to find)

San Salvador, El Salvador: 35.3 per 100,000

Mexico City, Mexico: 17.6 per 100,000*

Bogotá, Colombia: 14.3 per 100,000*

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: 10.4 per 100,000*

https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/2019-homicides-latin-america-capital/

Washington, DC homicide rate per 100,000 (2021): 32.9 per 100,000*

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2022/01/03/1069895511/d-c-saw-227-homicides-in-2021-as-murders-increased-for-the-fourth-year-in-a-row

No one claims that Washington DC is the most dangerous city in North America or South America, only that it’s murder rate is on par with “very dangerous cities” like San Salvador, and double bogota and Medellin and DF