Safer in Jamaica than a major city in the USA... Not true.

There are statistics for this.

Jamaica has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world.

Go ahead, say it doesn't happen to tourists. Not exactly true. There are plenty of stories out there about crime against tourists.

The "bad guys" don't care about the tourist industry and how it relates to the overall economic viability of all of Jamaica. The police don't seem to have done much of anything so far, what with daytime shootings happening on a regular basis. People are not afraid of the police.