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1isudlaer t1_ishwdg3 wrote

Tbh I’m surprised it ranked better than Chattanooga TN. I always thought that are of TN was quaint small town vibes.

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Enjolras55 OP t1_ishxkoe wrote

The methodology says they ranked the 150 most populous cities, plus included at least 2 of the most populous cities per state.

Baltimore and Columbia are the two most populated cities in Maryland.

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Apprehensive_Stop666 t1_ishxlb5 wrote

That’s the price of policies. Funnily enough DC has the highest number of police officers per capita!

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twotwocargarage t1_ishzylq wrote

My wife is from Columbia MD and this is hard to believe

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m4m4b4 t1_isi5jz3 wrote

This list sucks on many levels

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aj2000gm t1_isic6q3 wrote

Their “safety” metric is bizarre.

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PanAmargo t1_isiipvj wrote

Murder rate is higher than many big “dangerous” cities in Latin America

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1263sfsf t1_isis1x0 wrote

People here have Stockholm Syndrome. So many have been here so long they start to call the assaults, armed robbery, open air drug use, murder, etc. part of DC “culture”. It’s super strange.

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OpSecBestSex t1_isjai3v wrote

According to this, several other cities in Florida and the Gulf are safer for natural disasters than DC. I know there's other natural disasters besides hurricanes, but I can't think of any natural disaster that DC is exposed to to cause it to be that low on the list.

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NorseTikiBar t1_isjsd3i wrote

Ah, hollowed institute known as "Wallet Hub" with their well-understood and meaningful metrics.

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Then-Broccoli-823 t1_isjv32x wrote

They list the methodology at the bottom of the article. When people talk about how dangerous a city is, they're talking about things like (to quote the top comment at the time of this post), "assaults, armed robbery, open air drug use, murder, etc."

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They're not talking about COVID vaccination rates, potholes on the street, and "perception of safety based on Numbeo website visits." I'm not saying these things don't matter, I'm saying that these are two very different conversations. This is a crap article and a crap list that literally tells people nothing about how dangerous DC actually is.

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mediocre-spice t1_isk4g04 wrote

This isn't really super meaningful when you look at their methodology. It's a huge list of factors and somewhat arbitrary weightings that aren't directly safety related. Like most people don't mean debt to income ratio when they're talking safety.

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PanAmargo t1_iskaeby wrote

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

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PanAmargo t1_iskavkn wrote

Murder rate is probably the best proxy in some regards for overall criminality, at least it’s a very high end, because it’s by far the hardest crime to cover up. As such in the global south murder rate is used as the de facto violent crime rate as other crimes are poorly reported and poorly counted.

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NPRjunkieDC t1_iskb30d wrote

The problem is the build it and they will come. Eckington + Hill East + Bladensburg Rd + H St are areas notorious for gang relatec violence that were off limits to most of us living in NW . This is where many on here have chosen to live . At your own peril I would say .

The new buildings with rooftops and other amenities are what attracted many but it's a very high cost to pay .

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NPRjunkieDC t1_iskbjs5 wrote

First 50 are boring places where nothing is going on .

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pengo242 t1_iskqzjw wrote

Yep, lot of idiots here. Right here on reddit preaching acceptance of criminal behavior

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Tammie621 t1_iskxd04 wrote

Half the people making comments probably didn’t even read the definition used in this article for “safest”. Some comments mainly are focused on crime and not on the other parameters like vaccination status, unemployment, and infrastructure.

DC has its challenges but still prefer it to many other cities on this list.

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IcyWillow1193 t1_islae0p wrote

Has it ever occurred to you that people might have posted the link to that worthless article on that clickbait site before?

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HappySewist1 t1_ismhkol wrote

That is largely because we have DC police, Capitol Police, Park Police, etc. And DC has to deal with political caravans, and innumerable protests. DC has inordinately high protection and security demands that no other city has.

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turnip-taker t1_isyyb9f wrote

DC might not be safe compared to NYC, but this is just BS. Just look at how odd their methodology is for discerning safety.

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