I recently saw that Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Los Angeles......the 4,5 cities with the highest murder rates constituted 1/4 of the murders in the country. All of them have tough gun laws for law abiding citizens.
The crime rate in the U.S. is not as high as many reports would suggest. It's how crime is reported that is counted.
In Mexico only about 5-10 percent of all crimes are reported because they know that nothing will happen if it does get reported. And only 3-5 percent of all murders result in a conviction.
And the percentage is just as miserable for other crimes.
The lack of confidence in the public sector is a major reason.
If a crime does not get reported it does not count. The U.S. is a nation with 320M people, 75% have cell phones with a camera recording everything we do and 1000 cable channels to broadcast it.
That is not true in other nations.
The last year we have data for from the FBI crime stats is 2015, for which there were 15,696
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter deaths in the U.S.
(
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-1)
For that same year and category by city, the numbers were:
Chicago-478
Baltimore-344
Philadelphia-280
Los Angeles-282
Total of all 4 cities=1384
(
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....aw_enforcement_by_state_by_city_2015.xls/view)
Hopefully we can all agree on the truth of basic math, which gives me a total of 1,384 in the cities you indicated, out of 15,696 total. That gives me the stat that 1384/15696=8.8% of murders in the country happen in the cities you indicated. The 25% number you're basing your beliefs on is nearly 3 times bigger than true number of 8.8%
The reason I actually looked this up and did the math is to hopefully impress on you that the bubble you live in is feeding you bullshit and no-one in your belief group is doing any independent thinking or verification on the crap you're being fed. One would hope that you would now look at whatever Limbaugh or Hannity or the Fox opinion set or whoever fed you that lie, with a healthy set of skepticism after it was just demonstrated that they flat out lied to you with something that was easily verifiable.
BTW, I agree with you that crime is under-reported in Mexico and probably Venezuela and many other third world, violent places. Although you can't equate under reporting in something like theft or assault to under reporting in murders unless the murder victims never make it to a morgue (as is probably the case in Mexico). However when comparing U.S. murder rates to the "socialist" countries like Norway, Sweden, France....the U.S. rates are undeniably higher and you can't write it all off as black folks in inner cities. You certainly can't come to the conclusion you espoused earlier, that Venezuela is dangerous because it's socialist. There is absolutely no support for that conclusion.
