Paris even after terrorist attacks has a lower homicide rate than 32 US cities [View all]

[ButterflyBlood]

Someone brought this up elsewhere. Paris lost 145 people to terrorist attacks this year. The UN reports that its 2003-2008 homicide rate was 1.6 per every 100k people. If this stayed the same and the terrorist attacks are added on that equals 8.2 for 2015.

Compared to the US's major cities? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate_(2014)#Crime_rates_per_100.2C000_people_.282014.29

Paris would only tie for 33rd place with Greensboro, NC if it was an American city, even including those attacks. Someone in St. Louis in 2014 would be six times more likely to be murdered than someone in Paris this year.

Incidentally it seems that in 2013, the last time San Bernardino reported its crime states, it had a murder rate of 21 per 100k. Assuming this year was similar, that means even discounting the mass shooting there, it still had three times as many murders per capita as Paris.

This is something I don't think you'll ever hear any Republican bring up.