• IndieGoblin@lemmy.4d2.org
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    3 hours ago

    Is it really common though? Looking at the generalized US stats its seems that 95%+ of women murdered are by a person they know. Where as for men that stat is 78%. Its pretty rare to get murdered let alone murdered outside on the street. Most* people fear strangers because of news events not because of likelihood.

    Random murders just aren’t common and random women murders are even less common. Even rape and sexual assault the stats of random attacks on the street are very low. https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

    This is for the US, I’d expect it to be far lower for most other countries.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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      53 minutes ago

      I just want to know how these figures would change in case women were to change their behavior and start going out for late night walks.

      I think part of the reason we see these numbers instead is due to women’s apprehensivess in the first place, but I could be wrong.