> If you exclude the places where murder happens most, of course you appear to have a low murder rate.
There is no "of course" about it. If the murder rate were uniform throughout the US then excluding any handful of locations would have minimal effect, but excluding those locations causes it to drop precipitously.
That isn't to say it isn't a problem, but it's a localized problem. So if you're moving here and are worried about being murdered, all you have to do is live in New York and not Baltimore.
There is no "of course" about it. If the murder rate were uniform throughout the US then excluding any handful of locations would have minimal effect, but excluding those locations causes it to drop precipitously.
That isn't to say it isn't a problem, but it's a localized problem. So if you're moving here and are worried about being murdered, all you have to do is live in New York and not Baltimore.