> The broad trend is that cities in both Europe and America are safer, friendlier and more fun than a generation ago. That is something everyone should be able to celebrate.

What an absolutely boring way of ending an article... This, to me, is more important:

> On this basis, Chicago is by far the most deadly city in the data. In 2024 it had 587 homicides, a rate of 22 per 100,000 residents, or 2.7 times that of the next-worst offender, Los Angeles. The average rate among ten European cities is 1.7 per 100,000 people.

And with that we have the answer to the title; a very unsurprising "yes".