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Kind of interesting to think that other people in other countries perceive the USA as dangerous. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...bout//?print=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...bout//?print=1
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Compared to Mexico, it is! -
Travel guides sold to people in the US have similar but more specific warnings, at least going on the cities I've checked. I know I set my son down with marching orders for Chicago and D.C. when he was heading there alone. He ignored me on the Chicago one once, planning to walk through the edge of one "forbidden" area: a guy tried to rob him and he escaped only with luck, so theoretically he pays more attention to me now. But probably not.
I don't remember the specifics at this point, but I noticed that with Chicago the murder rate varies tremendously from one part of the city to the next, where one area will have a murder rate literally four times that of one geographically right beside it, when the division is either a big highway or the river. It's mostly based on gang activity, and they are most active in their home territory. Cut out those areas, and the US death rate is about the same as that of most European countries, but the national average with those areas is higher. So it makes sense to me that other countries would warn their travelers about specific cities or the areas within them that are most dangerous. Chicago's murder rate is 15.65 per 100,000 people; for the U.S. as a whole, it's 4.2. When you consider that parts of Chicago do better than the U.S. average, it's pretty clear that the bad parts are really bad.
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