[canuck_conservative]

Note that this list is ranked by the RATIO of murders per population - so even though ChiCongo has a lot committed by a small segment of the city, the ratio is low because of the millions of other law-abiding residents included in the city’s census.

Which shows just how bad things are in large cities like Detroit and Oakland ....

[Steve_Seattle]

"Note that this list is ranked by the RATIO of murders per population"

That's why Baghdad isn't on the list - despite hundreds and hundreds of terrorist-related homicides, its very large population keeps the ration down. But in an earlier post I wondered why Iraqi cities like Mosul and Tikrit weren't on the list despite hundreds of terrorist killings and much smaller populations than Baghdad.