I didn’t mean for this post to cause a bunch of arguing in the comments =(

I thought this was just some gallows humor (e.g. “Everything’s lovely except that I have to fear for my safety all the time”) type of shitpost that sounded similar to comments I’ve heard from women irl a lot.

  • bonus_crab@lemmy.world
    7·
    13 hours ago

    finland has a homocide rate of about 1 per 100k.
    Countries are generally lower than cities, but some cities for context :

    Hong Kong : 0.29
    Glendale CA : 0.52
    Tampere, Finland : 2.2
    Arlington TX: 4.8
    Los Angeles CA : 10.3
    Albequerqe NM : 21.3
    Washington DC : 31.85
    Flint MI : 70.7
    Tijuana MX : 95.9

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Maybe I’m too tired or dumb to understand this… But 1 per 100k what? Is this successes per 100k attempts? Is it murderers per 100k people? 1 homicide per 100k human interactions? Maybe a citation would help me to understand the statistic you are referring to. It’s not that I don’t believe the sentiment of this comment but I really don’t know what the figures mean here so I can’t meaningfully gauge what each number means for the safety of a city.