Under a headline that reads: US government issues updated travel warning on Israel", we learn that (The U.S.) State Department warns citizens of heightened security tensions, clashes in Jerusalem, urges Americans to avoid travel to West Bank and Gaza • Nevertheless, Americans can safely visit Israel for study, work, or tourism purposes, warning assures.
Is the U.S. as safe? Safer? Less safe?
Consider . . .
The ThinkProgress web site provides A Timeline Of Mass Shootings In The US Since Columbine beginning with
April 20, 1999. In the deadliest high school shooting in US history, teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold shot up Columbine High School in Littleton, CO. They killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. They killed themselves after the massacre.
And ending with
August 2015. Vester Lee Flanagan II aka Bryce Williams shoots dead two former colleagues from the WDBJ7 news team.
Somehow the liberal site missed the shooting at the LA Jewish Community Center on August 10. 1999.
Since it occurred after the list was published, it also lacks
December 2, 2015. San Bernardino shooting (Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik)
The last year statics are available for Dade County FL (Miami) is 2013, when, according to City-Data.com the county had
* 71 murders
* 96 reported rapes
* 2.326 reported robberies (theft from people)
* 2,562 reported assaults
* 3,993 reported burglaries (theft from properties).
At the time (2013) the county has a population of only 2.617 million.
Forbes. claims the 10 most dangerous places to live in the U.S. are, in descending order:
Detroit
St. Louis
Oakland
Memphis
Birmingham
Atlanta
Baltimore
Stockton
Cleveland
and coming in at number 10, Buffalo.
According to NeighborhoodScout’s Most Dangerous Cities - 2015 list, the most dangerous city, based on crime per population, is Camden NJ, followed by
Chester PA
Detroit MI
Saginaw MI
Oakland CA
Bessemer, AL
Flint, MI
Atlantic City, NJ
Wilmington, DE
and Memphis, TN rounding out the Top Ten, a dubious honor.
Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York failed to make the list. Washing DC comes in at 29. Miami at 46, Philadelphia is 54th, and Houston makes the list an #68.
Perhaps the U.S. State Department should issue a warning to potential visitors to the U.S. Statistically, it appears that a traveler is safer anywhere in Israel that in the U.S.
