How safe is Moscow for Americans?

[Renee Stillings]

Very interesting about Minnesota and actually while there is definitely some
truth to the matter about fires, it is a parody.

I think that the murder rate is probably down a bit in that state now, but I
think this is the case throughout the country due to the soaring economy. As
a whole though, Minnesota over the past 10 years or so has lost much of its
previous image as "great clean and safe place to raise a family." There are
definitely streets that I would not walk alone on after dark there and we
bailed out of the inner city for the suburbs early on. Those who bought our
house actually bailed on their mortgage after about a year as they were
frightened by the declining safety in the neighborhood. All of this
unfortunately probably awaits Russia as demographic shifts take place.

> "A Minnesota home is the most dangerous place in the state to be when it
> comes to fire. There were 40 residential fire deaths in the state in 1994.
>
> "While murders are going down in some major U.S. cities, the rate is
soaring
> in Minneapolis (pop. 368,383)--approaching even those found in New York
and
> Washington, D.C. By the middle of August 1995, Minneapolis had already
> topped its yearly record for homicides; there were 67 killings by
> mid-August, four more than the total for all of 1991, previously the
city's
> deadliest year. Nearly three-quarters of the victims were black, although
> blacks make up only 13 percent of the population."
>
> You will notice again that it seems that Fielding's utilizes the older
> statistics. How's the murder rate in the Twin Cities these days? :-)
>

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