Nearly Half of the 50 Most Violent Cities In the World Are In the US and Mexico

Border Hawk Blog ^ | March 11th, 2024 | Allan Wall

[River Hawk]

“…[F]or I have seen violence and strife in the city. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it." - Psalm 55:9,10

There is a Mexican NGO called the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal, A.C. which releases an annual list of the world’s 50 most violent cities.

The country with the most violent cities on the list was Mexico, with 16. In second place was Brazil, with 10 cities, followed by Colombia with eight.

The United States of America was #4 on the list with six cities.

The Central American nation of El Salvador had no cities on the list. Its president Nayib Bukele made an amazing discovery – if you put criminals in jail they can’t commit crimes against the general population.

The #1 most violent city on the 2023 list was Colima, Mexico. In 2023, this metropolitan area with 328,527 inhabitants had 461 homicides, which is a rate of 140.32 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

Mexico had seven cities in the top 10: #1 Colima, #2 Ciudad Obregon, #4 Zamora, #5 Manzanillo, #6 Tijuana, #7 Zacatecas, and #10 Ciudad Juarez.

Note that #6 Tijuana and #10 Ciudad Juarez are both located on the border with the United States.

The most violent city in the U.S.A. was Memphis at #14.

So Memphis is more violent than all but 13 cities in the world.

Memphis was followed by New Orleans at #22, Baltimore at #28, Cleveland at #30, Detroit at #32, and our glorious capital city of Washington, D.C. at #36.

There is a lot of violence in our country and in our hemisphere.

I just don’t think that letting in millions of unvetted foreigners is going to improve the situation.

[Leep]

If you can’t live in a 3rd world sham democracy then why not bring the 3rd world sham democracy here.

[AZJeep]

I am not sure about this list.
It seems to be covering places with some rule of law so they can have statistics.
I would dare to say that the most violent places are not on this list, because there are no statistics.
E.g. places in Sudan and in Africa (except for South Africa) in general. Some parts of Asia and central America are also very violent with lack of statistics.

[AZJeep]

And some countries, especially the communist one (e.g. Venezuela) will falsify the statistics to make them look better.

[newfreep]

If you exclude all black crime, we would have the violent crime rate somewhere between Finland and Iceland.

Absolutely!

See my tag line...

[CodeJockey]

No Moscow?

[CFW]

And, it is only going to get worse.

[cherry]

with each murder, comes a reaction...paranoia, hate, bitterness, fear...which all leads to more violence...

[cherry]

yes, and meanwhile our civilized young people refuse to marry and breed....we are not replacing ourselves...so this is the outcome...overrun by murderous people....