I think you are correct to focus on the causes of the statistic. Yours is the first comment to interrogate that issue - perhaps it is the most important one. How do decentralised self-interested actors perform this task better than centralised agents? what happened to economies of scale? How do functional communities deal with adjacent dysfunctional ones who spill over the one into the other?
It also seems to be a fallacy that crime is the preserve of the poor and uneducated as white collar crime powerfully refutes. In fact, violent crime often impacts more directly on the poor.
Thanks for your input!
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I was thinking on this a bit more today as I came home from getting garden supplies and realized that one very simple thing that could be done with no government would be to group up with 3 other individuals that also worked (preferably neighbors) and see about each pitching in 20% (still 20% better off than with a 40% tax rate) each to hire someone to guard your property while you were working.
Save up the other extra 20% and slowly purchase weapons with which to defend yourselves and, if possible, travel to work together.
Of course, without knowing the reasons for the horrific crime rate, it would be almost impossible to propose rational answers to them.