Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Scott Marshall writes:
Comparison of Murder Rate per 100,000 in Capital Cities
Amsterdam - 38
I don't think so. Amsterdam has a population of 713,000, so this is 270 murders. If you look here you will discover that in the Netherlands there were only 228 homicides committed in 1990. Needless to say, it is impossible for there to be more homicides in Amsterdam (5% of the population) than in the entire country.
The figure you have quoted would seem to be for (attempted + committed) homicides. From here you find 2206 of these in the Netherlands. 90% of these were attempted homicides so it seems likely that the homicide rate in Amsterdam is about 3.8.
Chicago - 33.1 Stockholm - 15.9 Helsinki - 15.3 Copenhagen - 10.5
I think you'll find the the homicide rates in Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen have also been grossly overstated.
Jerusalem - 3.1 Sydney - 2
