It’s a lot harder to murder somebody when you actually have to stab them or beat their head in with something.
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Plagiatus@lemmy.world 10 months agoa relatively safe city […] 37.8 murders per million
Ignoring that in 1632 it might’ve been easier for murder to go undetected, here are the numbers of present day London. It’s about 13.1 mpm, even lower than in 1632, about a third of present day New York.
www.statista.com/statistics/…/murders-in-london/
America is not really a shining example when it comes to those things…
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
New York’s murder rate (and the overall murder rate in the USA) is shaped by a history of race relations which London did not experience. A white person in New York is much less likely (and conversely a black or Hispanic person is much more likely) to be murdered than the overall murder rate for the city might lead someone to think.
GJdan@programming.dev 10 months ago
Oh, well, carry on then.
Klear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Username checks out.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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Black and Hispanic people make up 52% of the city’s population but 88% of the murder victims. The murder rate of the white and Asian population works out to approximately 8.4, so the average European tourist is not in much danger here.
Klear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, exactly. You seem to arbitrarily place higher value on white people’s lives…