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| Dec 23, 2023 at 20:48 | comment | added | cbeleites | But also in the US, we're talking about 723 robberies having location fields/woods vs. 44.5k robberies on highway/road/street/sidewalk (statista.com/statistics/195196/…). In terms of total robberies (3,4x as many as robberies on streets in small German municipalities), that's about 1 per 8.2k inhabitants which in the US would be like Maine/Vermont/West Virginia. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 20:34 | comment | added | cbeleites | Crime statistics are available grouped by size of municipality (bka.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/…). There were almost 1300 "robberies on roads and squares" (Straßen. Wege, Plätze) in municipalities with < 20k inhabitants. That's less than 1 per 26500 inhabitants. In cities > 500k inhabitants, about 7800 robberies happened, 1 per 1800 inhabitants. (And btw, it's 10 times more likely to die of sudden infant death in Germany than death during/by robbery) | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 19:54 | comment | added | cbeleites | @Valorum: OP explicitly talks about not wanting to run in an urban/city environment. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 19:50 | comment | added | Valorum | @cbeleitesunhappywithSX - It's trivially simple to find examples of muggers attacking joggers and people walking in towns and cities at nighttime in Germany (and indeed every country). | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 19:45 | comment | added | cbeleites | I live in Germany like OP says in their profile. The risk assessment of this question is ridiculously off. In Germany, trails in rural areas at nighttime/dark are not where one gets mugged. (That may be a consideration if OP were to run in certain urban park areas.) In the countryside outside villages, OP will meet mostly people walking their dogs, or occasionally someone biking or running and very rarely a hunter. For a potential mugger, areas where they don't meet anyone to mug, and if they do, it's someone with a dog is not a preferred scene of operations... | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 19:28 | comment | added | cbeleites | @ab2: even more: IMHO, someone in a situation where they are predictably subject to irrational fear is about the last one I like to have a gun or anything similar. | |
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| Nov 19, 2023 at 1:39 | comment | added | ab2 | I live in the US. The idea of a runner or hiker carrying a gun because his or her imagination, by his own admission, goes "wild at every sound or apparent movement" makes ME affraid." | |
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| S Nov 18, 2023 at 15:46 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |