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World's safest cities

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
The story These Are the World’s 25 Safest Cities
https://safecities.economist.com/wp...NG-NEC-Safe-Cities-2019-270x210-19-screen.pdf is the full report - a complex one.

Safest has many complex pieces: digital security, health security, infrastructure security, and personal security.

Personal security - for example
Inputs • Level of police engagement• Community-based patrolling• Available street-level crime data• Use of data-driven techniques for crime• Private security measures• Gun regulation and enforcement• Political stability risk• Effectiveness of the criminal justice system• Hazard monitoring

Outputs • Prevalence of petty crime• Prevalence of violent crime• Organised crime• Level of corruption• Rate of drug use • Frequency of terrorist attacks • Severity of terrorist attacks• Gender safety (female homicide)• Perceptions of safety• Threat of terrorism• Threat of military conflict• Threat of civil unrest

The list?
  1. Tokyo, Japan
  2. Singapore
  3. Osaka, Japan
  4. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  5. Sydney, Australia
  6. Toronto, Canada
  7. Washington, D.C.
  8. Copenhagen, Denmark
  9. Seoul, South Korea
  10. Melbourne, Australia
  11. Chicago, Illinois
  12. Stockholm, Sweden
  13. San Francisco, California
  14. London, England
  15. New York, New York
  16. Frankfurt, Germany
  17. Los Angeles, California
  18. Wellington, New Zealand
  19. Zurich, Switzerland
  20. Hong Kong
  21. Dallas, Texas
  22. Taipei, Taiwan
  23. Paris, France
  24. Brussels, Belgium
  25. Madrid, Spain
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
The story These Are the World’s 25 Safest Cities
https://safecities.economist.com/wp...NG-NEC-Safe-Cities-2019-270x210-19-screen.pdf is the full report - a complex one.

Safest has many complex pieces: digital security, health security, infrastructure security, and personal security.

Personal security - for example
Inputs • Level of police engagement• Community-based patrolling• Available street-level crime data• Use of data-driven techniques for crime• Private security measures• Gun regulation and enforcement• Political stability risk• Effectiveness of the criminal justice system• Hazard monitoring

Outputs • Prevalence of petty crime• Prevalence of violent crime• Organised crime• Level of corruption• Rate of drug use • Frequency of terrorist attacks • Severity of terrorist attacks• Gender safety (female homicide)• Perceptions of safety• Threat of terrorism• Threat of military conflict• Threat of civil unrest

The list?
  1. Tokyo, Japan
  2. Singapore
  3. Osaka, Japan
  4. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  5. Sydney, Australia
  6. Toronto, Canada
  7. Washington, D.C.
  8. Copenhagen, Denmark
  9. Seoul, South Korea
  10. Melbourne, Australia
  11. Chicago, Illinois
  12. Stockholm, Sweden
  13. San Francisco, California
  14. London, England
  15. New York, New York
  16. Frankfurt, Germany
  17. Los Angeles, California
  18. Wellington, New Zealand
  19. Zurich, Switzerland
  20. Hong Kong
  21. Dallas, Texas
  22. Taipei, Taiwan
  23. Paris, France
  24. Brussels, Belgium
  25. Madrid, Spain

Some of those cities surprise me
 
Hmmm, I very much doubt Amsterdam is in the top 4 safest cities in Holland, never mind the world.

Seeing as they only looked at 60 cities in the world though, seems pretty meaningless.

Although it does remind me one poster here was adamantly arguing that Amsterdam was an out of control, crime-ridden, murderous narco-state a few weeks ago :D
 

A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
Seeing as they only looked at 60 cities in the world though, seems pretty meaningless.
Agreed here. With only 60 in the entire mix, there is absolutely no way they got enough of a representative sample to make these claims' reach "in the world" status. That single point is enough for me to be of the opinion that the entire endeavor here is farcical.
 

bobhikes

Nondetermined
Premium Member
The story These Are the World’s 25 Safest Cities
https://safecities.economist.com/wp...NG-NEC-Safe-Cities-2019-270x210-19-screen.pdf is the full report - a complex one.

Safest has many complex pieces: digital security, health security, infrastructure security, and personal security.

My first thought was how did Chicago make that list, so I googled it apparently a lot of people think Chicago is bad, Here's what I found. The ten most dangerous cities in the US.

These Are The 10 Most Dangerous Cities In America For 2019
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
My first thought was how did Chicago make that list, so I googled it apparently a lot of people think Chicago is bad, Here's what I found. The ten most dangerous cities in the US.

These Are The 10 Most Dangerous Cities In America For 2019
I speculate that Chicago has many gun deaths, so it makes the news.
But It's also a very large city, so the overall danger rate could be lower
than news media would have us perceive it. Agenda is possibly at work.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I speculate that Chicago has many gun deaths, so it makes the news.
But It's also a very large city, so the overall danger rate could be lower
than news media would have us perceive it. Agenda is possibly at work.
And danger in this case is very broadly drawn. The broad health measure includes these: Air quality (PM 2.5 levels)• Water quality• Life expectancy years• Infant mortality• Cancer mortality rate• No. of biological, chemical, radiological weapons attacks• Emergency services in the city
 

Salvador

RF's Swedenborgian
I live near Chi-town, I know how to be safe around there by staying away from where the dark hoodies live. Also, having mob protection there helps some people avoid danger.

 
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A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
Keep in mind they are just safe compared to other major cities. They are not "safe cities".
I wondered about this also. Whether they did some sort of "filtering" to get their base of 60 cities. Like a certain population, or population density is what qualified a city into the research. A base of 60 just seems way too small for a worldwide comparison though, no matter how one might slice it.
 
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