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Also the shootings that have happend now during Songkran, from those I seen from news, almost every shooting had innocent people hit by stray bullets. Alot of the shootings was with more than one injury or death as well.

Exactly, people are shot over most minor stuff in thailand, and youth violence is rampant, stabbing and shooting at slightest provocation. Or just big groups of them riding around at night looking for people to attack or shoot for fun. And thailand barely has gangs like USA. Most shootings and stabbings in thailand are results of random altercations on the streets or provocations. Just look at Songkran now, there's lots of lots of stabbings and shootings because of petty stuff and drunken violence. And most tourists and expats have no clue, I saw many faramgs was upset 2 farangs was fighting in phuket during Songkran that they brought with them "western culture" but have no clue about the shootings and general violence across thailand

In Europe if gun violence or stabbings happens they report it, far majority gets on national news. I'm just saying the farangs who did that survey on that page hasn't got a single clue about the gun violence and murders in thailand. Most tourists and expats have no clue.

That website is not entirely accurate. Doesn't use any actual crime statistics or reports for their rankings. They use surveys that anyone can do. Most who do for thailand is farangs who have no clue how thailands crime and violence actually is like. If you don't know thai you miss 90% of violence and crime happening in news

Numbeo is not entirely accurate. It uses no actual crime statistics or reports. The website uses surveys that anyone can do. The rankings Doesn't always reflect on the reality.

so just like most tourists and expats make it seem europe is some sort of hell hole especially UK. when they have lower murder rate than thailand... and always rant about how UK is hotheaded and dangerous. but thailand is all peace and love, little to no gun violence, thais are most peaceful. far majority of foreigners have no clue what happens in thailand except the few crime/violence news aseannow or bangkokpost publish....

''I know most of our countries are far more dangerous, with much higher rates of violence and murder'' and which countries is that? western europe,australia, new zealand, etc aint ''far more dangerous with much higher rates of violence and murder'' than thailand.... and how would you even know that? you read/see a few or not even a few, rarely violent crimes or crime news in thailand being posted on english speaking thai news and make your assumptions based on that?

''Random stranger danger is quite rare...unlike in the West.'' and how do you know that when news dont report on all crimes or violence? and certinly not english speaking thai news, and i assume you cant read thai. ''the Thai perception of crime is very high'' so you know better than thais, so their perception of high crime is not true because you personally never experienced crime or seen it, and never hear/read about it?

Being able to read thai opens up about crime happening which people or pages post on facebook, i am from pqttaya our house was burgled 2 months ago, my family went to the local police station and filed a report, the cop laughed and said we get 10 such reports almost daily in that area, and said not much they can do except telling us to reach out to the insurance company if we had insurance. All crimes I read about in thai news language, none of them gets published to English thai news pages

As if thai police or news publish crime rates, also news barely publish crimes unless its shootings or stabbings (which not all is even published) tons of crimes go unreported or unpublished.

What are you on about, thais are like any other people in the world, they are not immune to not resorting to crime, you just don't seem to be well informed about how thailands bad side work, as almost no crime news gets published to English speaking thai news pages anyways.