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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Read it here years ago.
And the World Cup is being hosted by Brazil because...?
Not one Asian or European city in the top 50 .
Belfast? Belfast has a handful of murders a year at most. With a population of half a million. One of the safest cities in the world. It’s not 1972 anymore you know.
I live in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is a rambling, shambling conurbation with a population of 12 million. There is desperate poverty in some parts and if you looked at it you’d think it was a seething urban nightmare of chaos and crime. Actually it’s remarkably crime free.
In the ten years I have lived here, wandering around some dodgy areas late at night with my big red Irish face telling the world I have probably had a few too many drinks I have never met with anything other than a broad grin and a “hello mister!”. The worst crime I suffered was when I had my wallet stolen on a bus but it was handed back to me by a fellow passenger who had seen the thief and made him hand it over.
If I am not mistaken the murder rate was something in the region of 80 per year, out of 12 million people.
Asian people are generally law-abiding (well except for the endemic corruption of course).
“”Note that this list is ranked by the RATIO of murders per population”
You’ve hit on the solution. Large cities need to annex affluent and safe suburbs. This is exactly the same type of method that reduced the unemployment rate below 8%.
From the way a-holes like Piers Morgan talk, with the vast number of guns in the hands of ordinary citizens, you would think that American cities would top the list.
New Orleans and Detroit are what they've been for years.
Detroit’s not the highest in the state if you include cities with less than 150,000 people. Flint and Saginaw have them beat.
Belfast has cleaned up since the Troubles died down. Almost all the homicides there were between UVA/UDA/pIRA types.
The top ten seem to concentrate in Columbia, Venezuela, Mexico and Honduras.
The top US:
1. Flint, MI
2. Detroit, MI
3. Oakland, CA
Hmmm, that dream vacation to Brazil seems a little hastily conceived.
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Isn’t Honduras the birthplace of Mara Salvatrucha?
Those states may have Republican Governors, but I don’t think they’ve had Republican Governors for that long. And the CITIES that are mentioned have been solidly in the hands of Democrats for years, so they’ve had problems all along.
RE: Hmmm, that dream vacation to Brazil seems a little hastily conceived.
Your statistical chances of leaving Brazil unscathed are excellent based on the figures. :)
RE: A population of Third World savages is one of the most important of the 10,000 reasons why I’ve never set foot in Mexico.
Ahhh... but Mexico is coming to America... just look at what’s happening South of the border.
The MS-13 is Salvadoran. Before the US pushed the “peace process” on El Salvador it had a Guardia Nacional and a Policia de Hacienda that kept gangs (maras) from getting too organized. The GN and the PH were too small to keep the guerrillas in check once they established logistics through Nicaragua and were getting all manner of international help.
We forced El Salvador to get rid of its National Police and its less-corrupt and more effective Guardia and PH. They were replaced by the new “civilian” police that accepted former guerrillas. Then instead of having some teen gangs like the Mara Chancleta and the Mara Gallo they had the giant international MS-13.
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