Someone recently quipped to me that our chances of getting murdered have gone down dramatically with our reversal of direction from Bogotá to The Hague. I actually looked at this data a few weeks ago and plotted it because of ongoing admonitions from family about choosing Bogotá. It turns out, the smartest thing we did was move out of DC.
My life looks like it will be very boring in the The Hague. For all of the criminal courts, it does not appear there are many local violent criminals. As it were, all politics and murder are local. I don't think of Detroit as particularly dangerous, but I am sure for certain people and locations it is extremely dangerous. Wherever you live, I hope it is not Caracas, Venezuela.
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| Sources: US Cities, Wikipedia, FBI, NYTimes.com |
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Hmmmm... In DC I suppose the murder rate is dramatically lower for an urban american professional not involved in crime already... but in Bogota, the kidnap/kidney harvest/murder rate is probably astronomically higher among urban american professionals than other residents
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