Homicide rates per 100,000 (data from 2019 was easiest to find)

San Salvador, El Salvador: 35.3 per 100,000

Mexico City, Mexico: 17.6 per 100,000*

Bogotá, Colombia: 14.3 per 100,000*

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: 10.4 per 100,000*

https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/2019-homicides-latin-america-capital/

Washington, DC homicide rate per 100,000 (2021): 32.9 per 100,000*

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2022/01/03/1069895511/d-c-saw-227-homicides-in-2021-as-murders-increased-for-the-fourth-year-in-a-row

No one claims that Washington DC is the most dangerous city in North America or South America, only that it’s murder rate is on par with “very dangerous cities” like San Salvador, and double bogota and Medellin and DF