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Read the news, watch broadcast media, and the message is omnipresent: THE SKY IS FALLING! LEAVE YOUR HOME AND YOU WILL BE SHOT! This comes from both sides of the street, too – the pro-gunners act like you are in constant criminal danger everywhere, the hoplophobes say you don’t dare\u00a0 walk out the door lest a school shooting or mass murder kill you and your child.<\/p>\n
Well, it ain’t necessarily so, as the old song says. Absent a few urban areas, we live in one of the safer countries around. According to a recently published study:<\/p>\n
Some 73% of all murders in the U.S. took place in just 5% of counties while 52% of all counties reported no murders at all, according to a Crime Prevention Research Center study published this week and provided to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
“Murder isn\u2019t a nationwide problem,” the study found. “It\u2019s a problem in a small set of urban areas and even in those counties murders are concentrated in small areas inside them, and any solution must reduce those murders.”<\/p>\n
The 52% of counties with no reported murders covered 10% of the population, the study said. Some 68% of counties did not exceed one murder in 2020, which accounts for 2.6% of all murders in 2020, according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So in 7 out of 10 counties, the rate is about a murder a year.But – then we come to the ugly part.<\/p>\n
Most murders took place in the “worst” 5% of counties that year while the worst 1% \u2014 only 31 counties \u2014 recorded 42% of the murders in 2020, the study said. That area is where 21% of the entire U.S. population lives.<\/p>\n
The data show murders have become more concentrated since 2010. The country\u2019s most dangerous 5% of counties accounted for 71% of U.S. murders in 2010, which fell to 69% in 2014 but jumped to 73% in 2020.<\/p>\n
In L.A. County, the worst 10% of zip codes reported 41% of the murders, the worst 20% of zip codes accounted for 67% of the murders, and the worst 30% at 82% of murders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n