Safer in which way ? I was playing football on the street as a kid with a lot of kids from my neighborhoud. Now you see rarely kids on the streets because they risk being hit by cars or kidnapped.
"Stranger" kidnappings are exceedingly rare. The majority of Amber Alerts occur due to custodial disputes between divorced parents when one parent takes the kid when they are not supposed to[1].
> Children (and parents) are often conditioned to be wary of strangers. However, in reality, only a small fraction of child abduction cases – around 0.1 percent – involve kidnappings by strangers or slight acquaintances.
Car drivers kill thousands of people walking on the street every year. Kidnappers don’t.
This is the safest period in human history, more so if you live in a high income country.
But according to my anthropology professors, these societies tend to have very high death rates. For men, the lifetime risk of being murdered or killed in intergroup fighting runs about 10 to 20%.
So there's a real possibility that the modern era is very safe by historical standards.
That makes being born in western Russia in 1905 look like a peaceful life
Crimes of passion should also be exempted from the general murder rates.