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Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate (www.latimes.com)
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[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except by the police....

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair we won't know if those rise or fall, because for some reason they don't track it.

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

My favorite statistic on this topic is that there are roughly 8 times as many murders per capita in the US as in Germany and 4 times as many murders per capita in Mexico as in the US. So as a German the US is much less safe* in comparison of Mexico to the US. Something to think about.

*regarding homicide

Germany: 0.8 per 100,000 inhabitants (2021) USA: 6.8 per 100,000 inhabitants (2021) Mexico: 28.2 per 100,000 inhabitants (2021)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate