Comment by kelnos

I think it's more high-trust than high-safety. Most American cities (and certainly suburbs) are quite safe, and have only been getting safer over the past decades.

And yet we are constantly bombarded with fearmongering around children getting kidnapped on every street corner, every hour of the day.

I'll absolutely agree that a place like Tokyo is safer for a child on their own than NYC or SF, but the gap isn't as wide as the mainstream media would seem to suggest.