“Manila and Quezon City are among the Asian cities with the highest crime rate according to Numbeo 2025 Crime Index”
What Vera Files found
While it is true that both cities ranked high in Numbeo's crime index, the database is known to “crowdsource” data through “surveys answered by website visitors” and does not use official and confirmed statistical methods.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Harry Roque made this claim around 8 April 2025. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 14 April 2025, 6 days later. Its rating was “Needs Context”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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