Elon Musk, in an interview with The Economist last month, said much of Europe is so unsafe that “you can’t just walk around.” That may be true if you're the world’s richest man. But the perception of Europe as a cradle of crime is common among politicians on the American right. Do they have a point? Our data team used a novel source to compare nasties in American and European cities, and they found reasons for optimism everywhere.


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