The issues raised with respect to African Americans and the legacy of institutional racism have a parallel in Canada, cities with large First Nations populations have much higher crime rates, for example Edmonton.
Conversely economically depressed parts of Canada lack strong homicide rates. Newfoundland is an absolute basket case yet experiences few murders.
obviously some Americans cities like st Louis and Detroit, with large potions of the urban area and especially the core city are suffering from crime, loss of housing stock, and various social pathologies, should score low on these lists of livability.
There is a second class of American city however, places like LA and D.C., and perhaps SF, which deserve to score higher...here while crime is high by developed country standards, it is quite concentrated geographically and has little effect on the livability of the vast majority of residents. Living in D.C. It made little difference to me what was happening in a small slice of anacostia where 90% of the crime in the city was occurring, mostly related to drugs and occurring at 3 in the morning. D.C.'s black population is also prosperous, which I'm sure comes as a shock to the Canadian contingent here.
And then of course you have places like Seattle and portland and nyc and Denver which are low crime, high income cities which have none of the ills that some forumers keep harping on and generalizing to all us cities...and which should really score quite well in these surveys.
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