Posted on 11/28/2013 12:10:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Drug trafficking, gang wars, political instability, corruption, and poverty have combined to make Latin America by far the most homicidal region of the world. The region has 40% of the world's murders, despite having only 8 percent of the population, according to the U.N.
The highest murder rate of all is in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, with 169 homicides per 100,000 people, according to a study published earlier this year by Mexico's Citizens' Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice. The ranking is based on 2012 data, except for San Pedro Sula and Distrito Central in Honduras, where authorities would not cooperate and 2011 data was used.
The study does not count deaths in a war zone or cities where data was not available.
Forty-one of the top 50 dangerous cities are located in Latin America. U.S. cities also made the list, lead by New Orleans at 17th, along with Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Oakland.
50) Barranquilla, Colombia had 29.41 homicides per 100,000 residents.
49) Brasilia, Brazil had 29.73 homicides per 100,000 residents.
48) Belo Horizonte, Brazil had 29.74 homicides per 100,000 residents.
47) Monterrey, Mexico had 30.85 homicides per 100,000 residents.
46) Durban, South Africa had 30.94 homicides per 100,000 residents.
45) Macapá, Brazil had 32.06 homicides per 100,000 residents.
44) San Salvador, El Salvador had 32.48 homicides per 100,000 residents.
43) Oakland, United States had 33.10 homicides per 100,000 residents.
42) Curitiba, Brazil had 34.08 homicides per 100,000 residents.
41) Baltimore, United States had 35.03 homicides per 100,000 residents.
40) St. Louis, United States had 35.39 homicides per 100,000 residents.
39) Maracaibo, Venezuela had 35.44 homicides per 100,000 residents.
38) Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa had 36.02 homicides per 100,000 residents.
37) Pereira, Colombia had 36.13 homicides per 100,000 residents.
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No doubt rahm needs to do some work to get the #1 spot back.
I suspect a lot of other cities would be up there if they provided better statistics?
Is South Africa the only violent country on the African continent? I rather doubt it. But maybe they don’t keep any statistics to rely on in Sudan or Congo?
And how about Libya or Syria? Or Afghanistan?
More murders in St. Louis than Oakland....
Gezzz...
Midwest values again?
I looked up deaths from terrorist attacks in Mosul and Tikrit (Iraq) in just the past 30 days. Mosul had 51 deaths and Tikrit had 29. Projecting those out over a year, you get 612 and 348, respectively, and these are just terrorist homicides, not “ordinary” ones. Tikrit would rank third on the list with 133.85 homicides per 100,000 population, and Mosul would rank seventh, with a rate of 87.4. And these figures do NOT include non-terrorist homicides. Baghdad, because of its very large population (7.2 million), would only score 17.5 per 100,000 despite an estimated 1,260 terrorist-related homicides.
Agree.
yeah, Guatemala...Honduras calculate 50% plus are baptized Evangelicals
Man, don’t forget Sealy, Texas.
Missouri gov is a democrat
But in statistical rates we can’t begin to measure up with Mexico and South America
Acapulco 2nd most dangerous ? Of course, even Elvis didn’t go to Acapulco when he made “Fun in Acapulco.”
Jackson, Mississippi comes in at Number 8.
It has this quote:
“Racial tension is rife in Jackson and has fueled some of its murders. Recently, there was a spate of attacks by young whites against blacks.”
I checked out that link in the NYTimes.
One murder, white on Black.
All the other “attacks” involve slingshots and thrown bottles.
A 21 year old white guy, who had no connection to the murder, has pleaded guilty to “Conspiracy To Commit A Hate Crime” and could be sentenced to 5 years in federal prison.
Apparently, he and some of his white pals drove into Jackson from out of town several times to “harass” Black people.
Sounds like a plea bargain in return for testimony against his friends, but no exact details.
I can't help but notice that the NYTimes claims that the “Knockout Game” is a myth.
By the way - always important to remember this when you see white-on-Black crime statistics:
The FBI counts Hispanics as white.
So, when a Hispanic gang banger kills a Black gang banger, that counts as a white person murdering a Black person!
Interesting.
And I suspect that when they burn down a church full of Christians, just about any Muslim city could make the list that year.
Also, it may depend on how you define “city.” Boko Haram has a habit of coming into a town and killing just about everyone there.
I believe the list is 100% socialist/communist/democrat shitholes.
No Asia. No Europe. No Africa, except South Africa.
More than 1 in 3 pregnancies among black women end in abortion.
Well, to be fair, those are the most violent cities in countries where the rule of law is strong enough to record homicides as crimes. I suspect cities under the control of Islamists in various parts of the Arab world beat a lot of them, at least if one counts the extra-judicial killings of people for violating the local Al Qaeda faction’s reading of sharia as murders rather than executions for crimes.
It’s an absurd list: it’s measuring the combination of lethal violence and a sufficiently strong rule of law to adequately record homicides as crimes, rather than the actual level of homicides, and doing this only in urban areas. Most of Africa is missing because it lacks the latter. Botswana is probably the only other country in Subsaharan Africa besides South Africa with a strong enough rule of law to accurately record homicides, and it’s not a violent place, comparatively speaking.
RE: Of course, even Elvis didn’t go to Acapulco when he made “Fun in Acapulco.”
According to Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_in_Acapulco
While exterior filming was undertaken involving every other member of the crew at various places in Acapulco, Mexico, Elvis’s own shots had to be taken at the Paramount studios in Hollywood, in March 1963, as he had been declared “persona non grata” by the Mexican authorities following a series of incidents which took place at the trendy “Las Americas” movie theatre in the Mexican capital during the openings of at least two of its earlier films, most notably “King Creole” ( an entire chapter in a book by noted Mexican counter-culture writer Parménides García Saldaña entitled “Rey Criollo”, and finally published in 1970, deals on this subject which took place in 1959) and “G.I.Blues”, which opened under the title “Cafe Europa”, in the summer of 1962.
A double was hired to dovetail his long shot scenes with the rest of the crew while location filming was taken place.
So, they did shoot the film in Acapulco, BUT WITHOUT ELVIS.
It looks like the U.S. cities on the list are de-populating. Chicago, for all its troubles, is hanging in there at about 2.7 million.
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