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by pier25 2219 days ago
Your first URL is wrong, and btw you are comparing two different metrics. The Mexico link shows number of murders and the US one murder rate.

Also, even comparing apples to apples those stats don't paint the day to day reality of living in Mexico. Very often murders are from fights between narco gangs, or between narcos and the police/military.

Edit:

It's also true that crime and narco presence is not equally distributed.

See Queretaro vs Boston:

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Queretaro

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Boston