22 murders is still a lot for a city of just 470.000 people.
Vienna had roughly the same amount of murders this year, but 1.9 million people - so the murder rate in Omaha is 4x higher.
The US homicide rate is ten times higher than that of Austria and over one hundred times higher in major cities such as Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans. A large city here in which people can expect to be murdered only four times as often as they are in Vienna is unusually safe.
That's correct.
The reasons for this are also very obvious: The US has a lot of gangs, a huge amount of guns available to the public, a massive drug epidemic, a much higher share of poor people, virtually no social safety net for poor people, veterans on the streets in poor conditions etc. etc.
In the media here, Vienna with its 2 million people is always referred to as the "murder capital" - but even there murders only range between 10 and 20 each year, for a murder rate between 0.5-1 per 100.000 people.
In the US the rate is 4-5 per 100.000 people. Vienna, if it were a US state, would have the lowest murder rate among the 50 US states + DC ...
