Top 50 Cities In The World Ranked By Murder Rate

Commentary Magazine ^ | 04 June 2012 | Michael Rubin

[zeestephen]

7 of the top 10 are in Mexico and Honduras, directly linked to drug cartels - 41 of the top 50 are in Latin America - 4 in the USA...Detroit, New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore - 4 in South Africa - And...Mosul, Iraq

[zeestephen]

The Original Spanish Language Link:

http://www.seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/sala-de-prensa/541-san-pedro-sula-la-ciudad-mas-violenta-del-mundo-juarez-la-segunda

[rawcatslyentist]

Thank you Carrie Nation, and the Temperance Movement.

Thank you for creating criminal monopolies.

Thank you for condemning useful citizens as criminals.

Thank you for a Police State.

Thank you for the Kennedys, and Capones.

Thank you for MS13, laFamilia, and the Sinolas.

[piytar]

Um, I would add to your list, but you nailed it...

[donna]

Hon, governments will always make money off of that stuff. It’s really naive to think that...whatever fantasy you have.

[ChiMark]

Chicago didn’t round out the top five. That is disappointing.

[The people have spoken]

Oh-oh, better cancel that trip to Acapulco.

[SMGFan]

You would have to blame George W. Bush and the Republicans for at least the murders in the US cities. (superfluous /s)

[Tainan]

RANKING DE LAS 50 CIUDADES MÁS VIOLENTAS DEL MUNDO EN 2011
Posición Ciudad País Homicidios Habitantes Tasa
1 San Pedro Sula Honduras 1,143 719,447 158.87
2 Juárez México 1,974 1,335,890 147.77
3 Maceió Brasil 1,564 1,156,278 135.26
4 Acapulco México 1,029 804,412 127.92
5 Distrito Central Honduras 1,123 1,126,534 99.69
6 Caracas Venezuela 3,164 3,205,463 98.71
7 Torreón(metropolitana)México 990 1,128,152 87.75
8 Chihuahua México 690 831,693 82.96
9 Durango México 474 593,389 79.88
10 Belém Brasil 1,639 2,100,319 78.04
11 Cali Colombia 1,720 2,207,994 77.90
12 Guatemala Guatemala 2,248 3,014,060 74.58
13 Culiacán México 649 871,620 74.46
14 Medellín Colombia 1,624 2,309,446 70.32
15 Mazatlán México 307 445,343 68.94
16 Tepic (área metropolitana) México 299 439,362 68.05
17 Vitoria Brasil 1,143 1,685,384 67.82
18 Veracruz México 418 697,414 59.94
19 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela 554 940,477 58.91
20 San Salvador El Salvador 1,343 2,290,790 58.63

21 New Orleans Estados Unidos 199 343,829 57.88

22 Salvador (y RMS) Brasil 2,037 3,574,804 56.98
23 Cúcuta Colombia 335 597,385 56.08
24 Barquisimeto Venezuela 621 1,120,718 55.41
25 San Juan Puerto Rico 225 427,789 52.60
26 Manaus Brasil 1,079 2,106,866 51.21
27 São Luís Brasil 516 1,014,837 50.85
28 Nuevo Laredo México 191 389,674 49.02
29 João Pessoa Brasil 583 1,198,675 48.64

30 Detroit Estados Unidos 346 713,777 48.47



31 Cuiabá Brasil 403 834,060 48.32
32 Recife Brasil 1,793 3,717,640 48.23
33 Kingston (metropolitana) Jamaica 550 1,169,808 47.02
34 Cape Town Sudáfrica 1,614 3,497,097 46.15
35 Pereira Colombia 177 383,623 46.14
36 Macapá Brasil 225 499,116 45.08
37 Fortaleza Brasil 1,514 3,529,138 42.90
38 Monterrey (área metropolitana) México 1,680 4,160,339 40.38
39 Curitiba Brasil 720 1,890,272 38.09
40 Goiânia Brasil 484 1,302,001 37.17
41 Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (Port Elizabeth) Sudáfrica 381 1,050,930 36.25
42 Barranquilla Colombia 424 1,182,493 35.86

43 ST. Louis Estados Unidos 113 319,294 35.39

44 Mosul Iraq 636 1,800,000 35.33
45 Belo Horizonte Brasil 1,680 4,883,721 34.40

46 Panamá Panamá 543 1,713,070 31.70
47 Cuernavaca (zona metropolitana) México 198 630,174 31.42

48 Baltimore Estados Unidos 195 620,961 31.40

49 Durban Sudáfrica 1,059 3,468,087 30.54
50 City of Johannesburg Sudáfrica 1,186 3,888,180 30.50

FUENTE: Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal A.C., 2012.

NOLA, Detroit, St. Louis (East?) and Balmore reppin the USA !!

[Biggirl]

Where does Chicago rank, since shooting deaths occur on a daily basis?

[Biggirl]

Wow, NO CHICAGO! Strange!

[uncbob]

Ah yes the wonderful WOD that so many on this site support

[Surrounded_too]

Maybe there is a common thread in the makeup of these 4 cities that correlates to the cultivation of murderers?

Humm... What could it be?

Oh, right ... They all have teams in the NFL.

[chainsaw]

Chicago didn’t round out the top five. That is disappointing.

The dems probably reworked the numbers.

[BwanaNdege]

“Using figures from 2009, researchers found that Missouri’s homicide rate is 34.72 homicides per 100,000 black residents, which is almost double the national homicide rate for African-Americans of 17.90 per 100,000. This is significantly higher than the national rate for whites, which is 2.92 homicides per 100,000 people, according to study results.”

http://thegrio.com/2012/02/06/reports-african-american-homicide-rates-in-midwest-states-on-the-rise/

[Red Badger]

Thank you for La Cosa Nostra...........

[NelsTandberg]

You made me curious. I went to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report hoping to get 2011 data. Only the prelim report for the first half of 2011 is available.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/preliminary-annual-ucr-jan-jun-2011/data-tables/table-4/table-4-illinois-missouri

The 2010 murder rate is given as 7.90/100,000: 213 murders in a population of 2,695,598. There were 184 murders in the first half of 2011. If the population was similar and the rate continued unabated, they’d have had 368 murders. The 2011 rate would be 13.65/100,000.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Oh-oh, better cancel that trip to Acapulco.”

We already have.

[newzjunkey]

By population info, it's St Louis, MO which lost about 30,000 residents between the 2000 and 2010 census.

[zeestephen]

WOD...

World of Darkness?