The murder rate for Philadelphia is 18 so far this year.
2007 was 27 murders.
2006 was 22 murders.
This is one large city in the US.
http://www.malcolmxpark.org/?p=854
Try Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas. Reported killings this year is about 350, some 30 this last week.
That’s just murders in Philly as of 1-24 of each year.