I have travelled in bunch of third world Asian countries. Their cities are safer by orders of magnitude. Even Philippines. In Singapore you can go for a stroll after 10 pm without danger of assault. I saw sign boards in Singapore saying drug dealers get automatic death penalty in Singapore.
We are in deeper trouble than most understand.
There were shootings & stabbings all over Boston & Cambridge today.
Boston is, or was, one of the safer big cities in the U.S.