I live in Detroit, a couple of miles north of downtown. I wouldn’t think twice about wandering around downtown, anywhere downtown, at any hour of the day or night. It’s just not dangerous at all.

There are certainly neighborhoods where I wouldn’t do that, but the most surprising thing for me when I moved here was how aggressively friendly everybody is, and how off-base the “Detroit is a crime-ridden wasteland” comments are.

Yep. It's not like crime doesn't exist, but you're probably not going to encounter it unless you're a criminal or unlucky. Almost all of the murders are about drug money.

There is someone who was held at gunpoint in pretty much every town on earth.

Poor guy.

Stupid jokes aside, the safest city on earth has victims of crime.

You and I both know Detroit is very far from the safest city on earth. It’s among the most dangerous in the U.S.

Eh. It's #14 for Violent Crime / Robbery, behind a pretty interesting list of other cities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

The main thing I'm getting from that list is that I sure don't remember Fremont being some kind of mecca, of safety or otherwise. So that's surprising.

#3 in murder, after St. Louis and Baltimore.

The thing about the cities in really bad shape is that all we get is the reported crime rate, which tends to be lower. Murder rates are a more accurate statistic since you can't ignore a body like a jacked car or a rape.

Man there's a case in Virginia where they did just that.