Is America insecure?

In the first week of August, news was published that Nepali nurse Mamta Kafle was killed in Virginia, USA. Less than a week after that, another Nepali girl was killed in the city of Houston, Texas. 21-year-old Muna Pandey from Bhojpur, who came to America for study, was shot dead in Houston.

Muna was found dead in her apartment seven days ago. Muna, who went to America for graduation in 2021, was studying nursing at Houston Community College. Houston police arrested 51-year-old Babisingh Shah on the charge of murder and charged him with murder. The police are preparing to present Shah in court on September 3 on the charge of murder and on September 5 on the charge of possession of illegal weapons.

Earlier, 28-year-old Nepali nurse Mamta Kafle, who was missing from Manassas Park in the state of Virginia, was also killed. During the investigation, it was revealed that Mamta was killed by her husband Naresh Bhatt and the body was hidden after the murder. According to the police, Bhatt killed Mamata at home. Manassas police arrested Naresh last Thursday on charges of hiding the body. The hearing about the incident is ongoing . _{Muna Pandey and Babisingh Shah}

This kind of news that has been published frequently in the recent past has made all the Nepalese who are studying, working or doing business in the US or who are preparing to go. Along with that, the commentary that ``America is not safe'' has also been created for the common people.

According to the latest statistics, one person dies every 11 minutes due to a gun in America. At least 55 percent of them are suicides. Likewise, various statistics show that 40 percent of incidents are related to murder and violent crime. Other incidents are unintentional and related to actions of police officers .

Various studies have shown that the risk of suicide increases when there is easy access to weapons. Access to firearms in the home more than triples the likelihood of suicide. Any suicidal person has a more than 95 percent chance of dying if they get a gun.

99 percent of people who manage to survive a suicide attempt once do not attempt it again. But if a gun is used for suicide, chances of getting a second chance are very low.

Similarly, firearms are used in 40 percent of murders and violent crimes. Research has shown that easy access to guns increases the risk of homicide. US states with higher percentages of people who own guns have higher gun homicide rates . Similarly, a woman is five times more likely to be murdered if the assailant has a gun . According to statistics, there are incidents of domestic, community and mass shootings due to guns.

Every year, 1,000 people die due to the actions of police officers in gun-related incidents. According to a Johns Hopkins University study, unarmed black men are three times more likely to be shot and killed by police than white men.

Similarly, it seems that robbery, robbery, car theft or other crimes related to property are more common in America than violent crimes. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), there are an average of 1954 such crimes per 100,000 people in the United States. Violent crime is 380 per 100,000, according to the FBI.

10 high risk cities

According to a report by the BBC's Science Focus, St. Louis is the most dangerous city in the state of Missouri for violent crimes such as gun-related murders, assaults and robberies. There are 2,822 violent crimes per 100,000 people in St. Louis.

Similarly, Detroit, Michigan is number two. There are 2 thousand 56 violent incidents in every 100,000. 2,027 out of every 100,000 people in Baltimore, Maryland, which is in third place, has faced such incidents.

There were 1,820 violent incidents in Memphis, Tennessee, the fifth place, Kansas City, Missouri, 1,724, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1,597, and Cleveland, Ohio, in the seventh place. Likewise, Stockton in California is eighth with 1414 cases, Albuquerque in New Mexico is ninth with 1369 cases, and Indianapolis in Indiana is in tenth place with 1333 cases.

safe 10 city

Naperville, Illinois ranks #1 in terms of safety . In this city, 834 crimes per one lakh have been recorded. Which is an average of 67 percent less than the crime rate across the country. Similarly, Florida's Port St. Lucie ranked second with 919 crimes. North Carolina state with 1 thousand 35 cases Carey is in third place .

Frisco, Texas is fourth with 1,59 cases and Thousand Oaks, California is fifth with 1,172 cases. Similarly, McKinney, Texas, Gilbert, Arizona, and Santa Clarita, California are ranked sixth, seventh, and eighth, respectively. California's Sunnyvale and New York's Yonkers are ninth and tenth.

(with the help of agencies)