Borinquen 360 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 For what it's worth, as i pack things, and get ready to head back to the states. Gives me some small comfort as i leave the family for a few months. Davao 4th safest city Tuesday, June 23, 2015 By RUJI PETER S. ABAT DAVAO -- After ranking ninth safest in the world in the user-contributed survey site Numbeo.com, Davao City is now at fourth place. Last month’s survey showed that Davao City was ranked ninth after posting a safety index of 80.69 or a crime index of 19.31. But based on this month’s rating, Davao City had increased its safety index to 82.06 or a crime index of 17.94. Davao City is trailing Seoul, South Korea by only a few decimal points. Seoul ranked third with a safety index of 82.64 or crime index of 17.36. Singapore ranked second, with a safety index of 82.70 or a crime index of 17.30. Osaka, Japan, which is the safest in the world based on Numbeo, is far ahead with a safety index of 90.42 or 9.58 crime index. Trailing behind Davao City are Espoo, Finland with 81.16; Bergen, Norway with 80.98; Heidelberg, Germany with 80.78; and Stuttgart, Germany with 80.53. (Sun.Star Davao) Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on June 24, 2015. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Phillovescebu 153 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Isthere any articles on how safe Cebu is? Link to post Share on other sites
Baywak 1,296 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 I've lived in both Cebu and Davao and my personal experience is they are both equal as far as being safe goes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
liquido 1,677 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 I've lived in both Cebu and Davao and my personal experience is they are both equal as far as being safe goes. The key statement here is "my personal experience".....As far as generally speaking Davao is much safer than cebu...Im sure there are facts that back that up......... Link to post Share on other sites
Wrye83 1,346 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 How do they come up with these safety ratings? Are they user opinion, crime statistics or by some other method? 2 Link to post Share on other sites
SomeRandomGuy 6,596 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Numbeo is horrendously unreliable. All their data comes from people that visit their site and provide feed back. Not hard to manipulate. Does anyone here actually believe this? How do they come up with these safety ratings? Are they user opinion, crime statistics or by some other method?User opinion. Its all bullshit statistics 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Administrator +Salty Dog 79,414 Posted July 12, 2015 Administrator Share Posted July 12, 2015 (edited) I live in a city with no murders. How can it not be safer? Doesn't Davo have one or more a week? Edited July 12, 2015 by Salty Dog 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Wrye83 1,346 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 ll their data comes from people that visit their site and provide feed back. So it is based more off of perception and people showing up to vote based off of their city "pride". Not so much the actual facts. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Davaoeno 38,494 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 So it is based more off of perception and people showing up to vote based off of their city "pride". Not so much the actual facts. Your profile says " current resident" Is that even possible ?? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jtmwatchbiz 31,454 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I live in a city with no murders. How can it not be safer? Doesn't Davo have one or more a week? that's not the same 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Alfred E. Neuman 5,792 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 As reliable as Agoda. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Tullioz 3,148 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 (edited) So it is based more off of perception and people showing up to vote based off of their city "pride". Not so much the actual facts. This is correct, personal perception by no means is a way to accurately describe a cities actual safety or level of crime. Those rankings put out by Numbeo can be quite misleading. While I personally feel very safe in Davao, that does not mean that there is not a lot of crime. For example. In the third quarter of 2014 there were 5,166 crimes committed in Davao City. That comes to 56 crimes being committed every day. That number includes all crimes, but 2,255 of those crimes (25 per day) were against people and property. So Davao is by far not a crime free city. As for serious crimes in Davao City, it was hard to find any numbers, but I was able to find that in 2009 there were 2247 assaults, 463 murders and 101 cases of rape. It would be interesting to see some more recent numbers. To use the city of Philadelphia in the United States for a comparison which has around the same population as Davao (1.5 million). In 2009: 8928 assaults, 302 murders and 896 rapes. Edited July 13, 2015 by Tullioz 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Wrye83 1,346 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Your profile says " current resident" Is that even possible ?? What does that have to do with crime in Davao? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Davaoeno 38,494 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 What does that have to do with crime in Davao? I just meant that anyone who has lived here for any amount of time would realize that perception trumps logic and reality almost every time ! 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Kabisay-an gid 7,263 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 As for serious crimes in Davao City, it was hard to find any numbers, but I was able to find that in 2009 there were 2247 assaults, 463 murders and 101 cases of rape. It would be interesting to see some more recent numbers. A quick Google search turned up 2015 figures on the first results page. As of May 2015, there were already 216 homicides in Davao this year alone: http://davaotoday.com/main/davao-city/crimes-drop-by-26-4-in-davao-city/ Compare that to Philadelphia, which had 246 murders in the entire year of 2014: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Philadelphia#Homicides 4th safest city in the world? Hahahahahahahaha! Link to post Share on other sites
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