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Interactive Map Exposes the World's Most Murderous Places
Lashdots writes with this selection from a Fast Company story: In 2012, 437,000 people were killed worldwide, yielding a global average murder rate of 6.2 per 100,000 inhabitants. A third of those homicides occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean, home to just 8% of the world's population. But data on violent death can be difficult to obtain, since governments are often reluctant to share their homicide statistics. What data is available is sometimes inconsistent and inconclusive.
Adds Lashdots: To make this data clear and to better address the problem of global homicide, a new open-source visualization tool, the Homicide Monitor, tracks the total number of murders and murder rates per country, broken down by gender, age and, where the data is available, the type of weapon used, including firearms, sharp weapons, blunt weapons, poisoning, and others. For the most violent region in the world, the 40 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, you can also see statistics by state and city. That geographic specificity helps to underscore an important point about murders, says Robert Muggah, the research director and program coordinator for Citizen Security at the Rio de Janeiro-based Igarapé Institute, in the above-lined story: "In most cities, the vast majority of violence takes place on just a few street corners, at certain times of the day, and among specific people."
Honduras changed the gun law in 2007 to be more strict, because of the bad situation. And from the data you can see that there is a huge drop in deaths somewhere between 2011 and 2013. They seem to bulieve that there are still a lot of illegal guns in the country that the civilians and criminals got in the 1980s.
From this it looks like the law has a very good chance of working (remember that it always takes a while for a new law to start affecting), but obviously we would need more data to be sure. And we also have to remember that it could have been caused by anything else that was done at the same time.
Better than an alternate theory is actual facts: In the U.S. [...]
I agree with you Sir, so i post some official FACTS that support your comment:
2012 Arrests by Race, Black, percent distribution: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter (49.4%), forcible rape (32.5%), robbery (54.9%); Census Population by Race, Black: 13.2%.
source: FBI http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj... - census http://quickfacts.census.gov/q...
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
Look at the homicide rate in the US South.
So much for theory of gun states having less crime.
Alternate theory inbreeding leads to increased violence.
Better than an alternate theory is actual facts: In the U.S., the cities with the largest population of blacks have the most crime and the cities with the lowest number of blacks have the least amount of crime. This is a fact and there is not one single exception to this.
People often compare the U.S. to the rest of the world and claim that the U.S. has more people in prison than anywhere else, and but conveniently fail to mention that the U.S. is the only country (outside of the African continent) with a large population of blacks.
Hold that thought, by that narrative the top 20 violent and murderous countries should be all african countries.