I’m going to make an educated guess at two big reasons as to why the US has a much higher murder rate compared to other wealthy nations: guns and income inequality.
in both sf and houston is pretty well demarcated areas that are more affluent and the poor areas. most of them were probably near the tenderloin area too.
Yeah, the 32 of 827k population SF is pretty damn awful when compared to the 54 of 6m population Denmark or the 13 of 1.4m population Copenhagen…
One of a million pieces of data pointing at the fact that surveillance and law enforcement is NOT how you bring down crime.
I’m going to make an educated guess at two big reasons as to why the US has a much higher murder rate compared to other wealthy nations: guns and income inequality.
in both sf and houston is pretty well demarcated areas that are more affluent and the poor areas. most of them were probably near the tenderloin area too.