> Imagine walking around Memphis at midnight, alone and unarmed
Says it all about your biases that you seriously think this is actually a dangerous proposition in terms of real statistical risk.
Says it all about your biases that you seriously think this is actually a dangerous proposition in terms of real statistical risk.
I don't have stats for individual Chinese cities, but China's rate is 0.46 per 100,000 people. In China, it's plausible that the cities are safer than the countryside, and I don't think that Beijing's number is substantially higher than the national average.
Basically, you are 139x more likely to be murdered in Memphis.
Look at the trends and think about what you're saying. What you're calling "authoritarianism" (very vaguely defined) has brought order from chaos. I don't know if there's a single large American city that is now safer than Beijing. Sure, things were different in 1960. "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."