If hanging around professional thiefs does not make you feel unsafe, then Paris is a very safe city indeed
But that's not how people usually define 'safe'Sure, someone who has never been to a big city before will be a sitting duck. But anyone who uses common sense will not get anything stolen. In any case, I don't think of petty thieves who will do not any bodily harm as a threat to my safety.
Maybe it's just me, but I have lived in major American cities (like NYC), and in comparison, cities like Paris and London are extremely safe.
Well the title was about European cities. Sure the US may be even worse, but that's not a very good benchmark. There are many 'large' european city considerably safer than Paris