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[kandrathe]

Leaving aside for a minute your increasingly strange definition of "progressive", these numbers aren't quite right.

I was using Nationmaster (0.0111538 per 1,000). The Netherlands rate hovers above and below 1/100,000.

The 5.25 million number you are using for MN population was probably from the 2000 Census, whereas current projections are upwards of about 5.6 million, but somewhere around 1/100,000 seems right. I'm just citing exactly what is listed from my source, "The crime rate for homicide in 2009 was 1 per 100,000 population." on page 16.

There are still a few rough neighborhoods, where poverty, gangs, drugs, and crime are more prevalent, but generally, things are safer than they ever have been around here.