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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by SNosTrAnDbLe on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:59AM (#29091247)
The state of Gujarat in India prohibits the consumption of alcohol. A lot of its cities are considered to the safest for woman in India. While alcohol is available illegally, its consumption is still frowned upon. This relative safety is sometimes correlated with Gujarat being a dry state. I tried to search for any studies but could not find any so it may just be a coincidence. I have lived in Gujarat and the night life is very family friendly and usually involves lots of street food instead of bars and restaurants!
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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by potamic on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @04:38AM (#29092299)
By what metric is Gujarat considered safe? It ranks as one of the worst states in India for human trafficking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_incid...

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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by metb on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:50AM (#29092633)
Are we using Wikipedia as a reliable source of hard metric data these days?
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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by mschuster91 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:55AM (#29092666)
The article directly states in its first paragraph that the list originates from a government source:

> This is a list of states and union territories of India ranked by incidents of human trafficking as of 2016, and is based on the number of convicted cases. The list is compiled from the '2016 Crime in India Report' published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Government of India.[1]

Of course this kind of data has its own issues (e.g. incidents that don't end in a conviction because of bribery or police/judicial misconduct or that don't get caught by police at all don't end up in it), but it's probably the qualitatively best data you can get.

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Re:Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s mos... by vagrantJin on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @03:52AM (#29092077)
> A lot of its cities are considered to the safest for woman in India

I like how you phrased this as if it were a meaningful metric. Is "safe for women" more useful than safe for everybody including children?

Do you have perhaps things relating to brawls, muggings, drunk driving arrests and accidents, drunk pedestrian road fatalities, suicide rates as determinants for a safe city? I'd think they're more reasonable than a vague metric as "safest for women"

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