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Originally Posted by Ustwo
We have had this on the boards before, but....
I have a better chance of being violently assaulted in London than I do in Chicago.
As a white male I also have a lower chance of being murdered.
Go figure.
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London: 7.5 million people, 2.4 murder/100k, 574 assults/100k
Chicago: 2.8 million people, 15.65 murder/100k, 800 assults/100k
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cv3lma98.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
http://www.techcentralstation.com/012003M.html
Larger city. Fewer assults per capita. Fewer murders per capita.
Oh, and London has had a recent spike in crime recently. Chicago has had a recent downswing.
Could you cite your sources?
Note also the scale of the differences. On one hand, assult differs by +/- 50%, with completely different rules for what constitutes assult and expected reporting behaviours. Murder, which tends to be noticed and reported with a pretty high rate of accuracy, differs by a factor of over 6.