You're talking murder rate, but if you want to know what city has the most total murders, Chicago is it.
The rate is low because the homicides largely occur in a fairly small part of the city. It's also a fairly big city (~225 sq miles) surrounded by densely populated and fairly safe suburbs.
Murder rate matters, but when you look at the whole picture and consider that Chicago has been top of the list for over a decade you can't come up with any other conclusion than parts of that city are more dangerous than most warzones. Over a 20-year period we lost an average of 120 people a year in Afghanistan - our worst year we lost 498 American lives. Last year nearly 700 people were murdered in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Chicago had the highest number of homicides in the United States in 2022, according to a new report. Chicago had 697 total homicides in 2022, higher than Philadelphia (516), …
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I'd stop defending Chicago's record of not being a hellhole, and maybe do a little research.