I don't know about Mexico, but city-wide US murder rates don't actually tell you much about individual risk. In other words, for some sub-populations, Oakland is a lot more dangerous than 22/100k would suggest while it's a lot safer for other subpopulations.
The reason is that US murders aren't random. (And yes, "competitors" know each other.) Even the "killed by accident" happen to folk who live in/visit the "wrong" neighborhoods.
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> Baltimore by contrast was 34.8 and Oakland 22.
I don't know about Mexico, but city-wide US murder rates don't actually tell you much about individual risk. In other words, for some sub-populations, Oakland is a lot more dangerous than 22/100k would suggest while it's a lot safer for other subpopulations.
The reason is that US murders aren't random. (And yes, "competitors" know each other.) Even the "killed by accident" happen to folk who live in/visit the "wrong" neighborhoods.
Baltimore is scary. Almost all of it.