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Originally Posted by nfotiu
The point being that everyone is saying that the whole US is a terribly scary place to live when the country as a whole is about the same as Edmonton or Calgary in terms of likelihood to die by homicide of any kind.
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except when you actually compare the homicide rate for Calgary, 2.07 per 100,000 in 2018, it would rank as the 8th lowest city on the FBI's 2017 analysis of the 100 most dangerous Cities in the US, with Gilbert Arizona
As a nation as a whole, Canada's 1.8 per capita rank would compare to the 4th lowest city in the US, just ahead of Boise Idaho
Canada's "murder capital" of Winnipeg at 3.69, lands it just ahead of Portland, Oregon as the 23rd lowest city out of 100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._by_crime_rate
in order for Calgary to be "about the same" as the US, its per capita rate would have to jump to 4.9 from 2.07, which in real terms means the 31 homicides calgary had in 2018 would have to increase to 74
you think people would be feeling safe in calgary is there were 74 homicides per year?
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