I disagree. Most of the other threads were about crime at specific locations. This thread is a commentary about the statistical comparisons people make in stating that the U.S. is more dangerous than Mexico, and that resort areas in Mx are safer than some inner city areas of the US, all of which may be true.
The point being that you don't see the same type of depraved brutality that occurs hourly in Mx in the US, which drives people's overall fear, despite the stats.
"Hourly" may be a bit of an overstatement (IMO), although I cannot say for sure without gathering all the factual/statistical data. But perhaps you have data supporting the "hourly" comment?
There's a lot of depravity that happens here in the US that people don't know about either. Either the new is "local" (I highly doubt you all heard about the father/uncle or whatever that killed his daughter and put her in a suitcase around here, or the chinese family "murder house", etc.)
Unfortunately there's bad people and bad things that happen all over the place that we're not aware of.
BTW, I have no issue with folks reporting news and stuff that's factual about Mexico or any other spot. What I find very interesting (not necessarily in this forum because it's Mexico, so I don't expect to hear/see news from other parts of the world), is something like:
On the HGVC Owners FB group, the moderator constantly posts articles how dangerous Mexico is. But only Mexico. When there was Zika in FL and night club shootings in Miami, there was silence. (Little did I know that other countries actually advised their citizens to not travel to the US, especially Florida due to violence against LGBT and intolerance against muslims, etc. back in I think 2016).
Personally I think people should be self-informed, but need to make an *educated* decisions. Example:
Southwest airlines had that issue, now all we see/hear on the news is every time there's a problem on Southwest (or any other plane) now we're aware of it due to the media coverage. But surprise: this happens all the time. But now a bunch of folks are "scared" into not flying because now they *think* it's more unsafe (but yet doesn't stop them from driving in their car where they're far more likely to suffer an accident/fatality). So you can take the view that because we're "aware" of this now that it's not safe, and you shouldn't fly. IMO, when you look at the factual data (albeit more difficult to do with foreign entities and even our own US government isn't always right/factual), you'll see that there's not really an uptick on these, it's just the reporting of these in the national media that's increased. And we see the same when a train derails, etc.
Before my trip to Hawaii there was a rash of drownings (well at least reportings) of snorkelers/etc. Now does this mean that one shouldn't go into the ocean in Hawaii? IMO, no. But some folks took it that way. Once you delved into the details in the vast majority of cases these were tourists (vs locals), who went into areas they shouldn't have or by themselves, or did "stupid" things. However, by raising awareness, we took extra precautions and chose to wear life vests (normally I've never worn one when snorkeling unless mandated, but I also never go snorkeling alone).
But this is a free country. You don't want to fly, then don't (trust me, took like 60+ years to convince my grandmother to fly and when she finally did she was like "oh what was all the fuss about"). You don't want to go to Mexico, don't go. I don't mean to say this in a rude way, either. Anyone going to Jamaica? (LOL)