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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."
If a gang kills 6 rival gang members in one incident, does it count as 6 murders or 1? I'd argue that such a place would actually be "safer" than having 6 independent murders taking place.
Same goes for terrorism. If a bomb goes off killing a dozen, is it "murder" is does it fall under another category?
Also, access to emergency healthcare is a HUGE factor. If you get stabbed in the middle of nowhere, you're a goner, if you get stabbed next to a hospital (most major western cities) and care gets to you while you're still breathing, there's a pretty good chance you'll live. So lower homicide rate doesn't tell you much about the rate of such incidents.
Or, in the case of many regions (parts of Africa or the Middle East spring to mind) there's often no government presence whatsoever in areas where there's a whole lot of killin' going on.
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"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." This literally sounds like the easiest policing job ever if they know all this...
Strangely, that murder map correlates quite nicely to areas of the world with the weakest governments. What say you, libertards?
Honduras (#1 city) requires each firearm to be licensed (& renewed every 4 years). Can only have 5 firearms, each must be registered (including ballistics info). Only allowed on private property, not carried in public. Automatic & "Assault" weapons are prohibited. Must be purchased from "La Armeria" (govt run). Sounds like what gun control folks dream about. Obviously it works...
How much of this is due to their providing illegal things that other countries pay for? (eg drugs)
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Aside from the gaping holes in the data for many countries, the use of a spinning globe is a nuisance. Just display a map, it doesn't have to move around.
Countries don't count homicides the same way. In England and Wales, as an example, deaths don't count as homicides unless, and until, there is a conviction for the death. Here is a report that highlights that difference: www.parliament.uk
35. Homicide statistics too vary widely. In some developing countries, the statistics are known to be far from complete. Figures for crimes labelled as homicide in various countries are simply not comparable. Since 1967, homicide figures for England and Wales have been adjusted to exclude any cases which do not result in conviction, or where the person is not prosecuted on grounds of self defence or otherwise. This reduces the apparent number of homicides by between 13 per cent and 15 per cent. The adjustment is made only in respect of figures shown in one part of the Annual Criminal Statistics. In another part relating to the use of firearms, no adjustment is made. A table of the number of homicides in which firearms were used in England and Wales will therefore differ according to which section of the annual statistics was used as its base. Similarly in statistics relating to the use of firearms, a homicide will be recorded where the firearm was used as a blunt instrument, but in the specific homicide statistics, that case will be shown under "blunt instrument".
36. Many countries, including the United States, do not adjust their statistics down in that way and their figures include cases of self defence, killings by police and justifiable homicides. In Portugal, cases in which the cause of death is unknown are included in the homicide figures, inflating the apparent homicide rate very considerably.
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.
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Of the 50 cities with the most murders, the U.S. is the only first world country with cities on the list.
#28 - New Orleans - 39.61 homicides per 100,000 residents
#22 - Detroit - 44.87 homicides per 100,000 residents
#19 - St. Louis - 49.93 homicides per 100,000 residents
Looks like it.
Gee whiz Mr Wizard, what do those cities have in common?
Gee whiz Mr Wizard, what do those cities have in common?
1. Lots of blacks.
2. Run by Democrats - for decades.
Next question?
Crime statistics from Greece (still low crime rates compared to most of the world, but huge difference from when Greece became more NON-Greek!)
Population: Greeks (9.903.268 - including all Greek citizens, i.e., even about 3% officialy non-ethnic Greeks...) - NON-Greeks (708.003 - officialy 70% of them "undocumented immigrants"...)
Crime Perpetrators:
Homocide: Greeks (264) - NON-Greeks (188)
Rape: Greeks (117) - NON-Greeks (76)
Robbery: Greeks (1,316) - NON-Greeks (896)
Sources: latest (2011) official population census: http://www.statistics.gr/porta... - latest (2013) official police data: http://www.astynomia.gr/images...
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The U.S. is the only country what? I have no idea what you want to imply by making racial profiles whereas violent crime has obviously socioeconomic roots, but you are factually incorrect.
The U.S. did indeed traffick a sizeable amount of enslaved blacks out of Africa, but it is not even close to being the largest population or proportion of blacks out of Africa. That would most likely be Brazil.
And then you realize that those cities aren't sovereign entities, but subject to the influences of state and federal governments that have done what over the past few decades? Encourage jobs to be outsourced? Siphoned money and productivity off to who knows where? Allowed bankers to get away with outright defrauding the civic governments?
Oh goodness, but that would take more examination than just blaming it on simpler correlations and ignoring actual causation.
They didn't fix the problem, therefore, they are the problem.
No more thinking needed!
Surprise - Greenland doesn't come to mind, but it is listed as almost 2x the murder rate of Russia. It's the suicide capital of the world.
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...says Robert Muggah, the research director and program coordinator...
Actually, Robert Muggah says "hands up!"
That might explain why the murder rate is so high in Brazil. "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."
The same correlation can be made with poverty. And black people are in particular poor. The same can be said about other groups as well. Turning this into a race issue is non-sense. It just shows your prejudices. To reduce crime you need to reduce poverty and injustice. An excess in punishment and restraint does not lead to a safer society. Legalize drugs, eliminate laws that give cops a free ride to trample over individuals rights, institute meaningful educational reforms, and ensure people gain equal access to economic opportunities, etc. If you make it difficult to get employment (lack of education, let criminal records follow job applicants, etc) or start businesses (make it difficult to get credit, make it difficult to start a business through excess regulation only large businesses can reasonably comply with, etc) then the system will have high rates of crime. It's not specifically a matter of socialism that can solve these issues. In fact its likely the opposite. Regulation for large companies and particularly those who have monopolies makes sense. Regulating smaller players in the market doesn't.
There are already laws that govern police behavior. Just because the police may break those laws does not mean we need more laws. And companies also have a whole list of laws and regulations they must adhere to and just because a company may break those laws doesn't mean more laws are needed. And everyone should have equal opportunities but there are some who willfully fail to take advantage of those opportunities. No matter what reforms are handed down by the national or local governments the ultimate responsibility is on the individual and trying to shift the responsibility on to someone else will not help anything.
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...
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Remind me to never visit Brazil, Mexico, or Honduras.
Summary, in alphabetical order
* Brazil x 19 !!!
* Columbia
* Honduras x 2
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Jamaica
* Louisiana, USA
* Maryland, USA
* Mexico x 10 !!
* Michigan, USA
* Missouri, USA
* South Africa
* Venezuela x 4 !
Top 50 List without all the bullshit images:
1. San Pedro Sula, Honduras had 171.20 homicides per 100,000 residents.
2. Caracas, Venezuela had 115.98 homicides per 100,000 residents.
3. Acapulco, Mexico had 104.16 homicides per 100,000 residents.
4. João Pessoa, Brazil had 79.41 homicides per 100,000 residents.
5. Distrito Central, Honduras had 77.65 homicides per 100,000 residents.
6. MaceiÃ, Brazil had 72.91 homicides per 100,000 residents.
7. Valencia, Venezuela had 71.08 homicides per 100,000 residents.
8. Fortaleza, Brazil had 66.55 homicides per 100,000 residents.
9. Cali, Colombia had 65.25 homicides per 100,000 residents.
10. São LuÃs, Brazil had 64.71 homicides per 100,000 residents.
11. Natal, Brazil had 63.68 homicides per 100,000 residents.
12. Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela had 62.13 homicides per 100,000 residents.
13. San Salvador, El Salvador had 61.21 homicides per 100,000 residents.
14. Cape Town, South Africa had 60 homicides per 100,000 residents.
15. Vitoria, Brazil had 57 homicides per 100,000 residents.
16. CuiabÃ, Brazil had 56.46 homicides per 100,000 residents.
17. Salvador (and RMS), Brazil had 54.31 homicides per 100,000 residents.
18. Belém, Brazil had 53.06 homicides per 100,000 residents.
19. St. Louis, Missouri had 49.93 homicides per 100,000 residents.
20. Teresina, Brazil had 49.49 homicides per 100,000 residents.
21. Barquisimeto, Venezuela had 46.46 homicides per 100,000 residents.
22. Detroit, Michigan had 44.87 homicides per 100,000 residents.
23. GoiÃnia, Brazil had 44.82 homicides per 100,000 residents.
24. CuliacÃn, Mexico had 42.17 homicides per 100,000 residents.
25. Guatemala, Guatemala had 41.90 homicides per 100,000 residents.
26. Kingston, Jamaica had 40.59 homicides per 100,000 residents.
27. JuÃrez, Mexico had 39.94 homicides per 100,000 residents.
28. New Orleans, Louisiana had 39.61 homicides per 100,000 residents.
29. Recife, Brazil had 39.05 homicides per 100,000 residents.
30. Campina Grande, Brazil had 37.97 homicides per 100,000 residents.
31. ObregÃn, Mexico had 37.71 homicides per 100,000 residents.
32. Palmira, Colombia had 37.66 homicides per 100,000 residents.
33. Manaus, Brazil had 37.07 homicides per 100,000 residents.
34. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico had 34.92 homicides per 100,000 residents.
35. Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa had 34.89 homicides per 100,000 residents.
36. Pereira, Colombia had 34.68 homicides per 100,000 residents.
37. Porto Alegre, Brazil had 34.65 homicides per 100,000 residents.
38. Durban, South Africa had 34.48 homicides per 100,000 residents.
39. Aracaju, Brazil had 34.19 homicides per 100,000 residents.
40. Baltimore, Maryland had 33.92 homicides per 100,000 residents.
41. Victoria, Mexico had 33.91 homicides per 100,000 residents.
42. Belo Horizonte, Brazil had 33.39 homicides per 100,000 residents.
43. Chihuahua, Mexico had 33.29 homicides per 100,000 residents.
44. Curitiba, Brazil had 31.48 homicides per 100,000 residents.
45. Tijuana, Mexico had 29.90 homicides per 100,000 residents.
46. MacapÃ, Brazil, had 28.87 homicides per 100,000 residents.
47. CÃcuta, Colombia, had 28.43 homicides per 100,000 residents.
48. TorreÃn, Mexico, had 27.81 homicides per 100,000 residents.
49. MedellÃn, Colombia, had 26.91 homicides per 100,000 resident
50. Cuernavaca, Mexico, had 25.45 homicides per 100,000 residents.
I feel bad for all the people in Brazil and Mexico.
again. look at the people who run the cities. Look at baltimore, democrat run for over 50 years. and look at what happened there.
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Yessiree! Dyslexic human traffickers who never had to suffer back pain or stiff muscles, but were total failures at growing cotton.
Can't believe how off-topic most of the trolls are... kids these days, sheesh :-(
Because the "regulations" don't go far enough. There is a reason why Bloomberg and Soros are philanthropists, spending money to reign in the stupidity of unregulated firearm ownership when it comes to the US. The US needs reasonable gun control laws, as in own a gun, go to jail.
Take Australia and Venezuela, the data after 2012 isn't there, but if you check recent statistics, both passed gun control laws banning non-military/non-police ownership of guns.
Venezuela's gun crime rate is 1/1000 of what that data shows in 2012. Australia's is a fraction of what it was before the handover.
So, the truth is real. More guns, the more dead children. Perhaps it is time for having the guts to do like NYC, making it the most crime-free city in the US by their handgun ban?
Isn't this place about science and scientific methodology? Do you or ( anyone who modded you up ) have statistics to back that up? Can you show that the correlation isn't to poverty, and not race? Or do we continue to discredit an entire race of people simply based on our own stereotypes and cognitive biases?
if you think they are philanthropists for altruistic reasons, i got this bridge for sale....
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It is statistically a fact that in the U.S. a black person is roughly 7 times more likely to commit murder than a white person (about 7 thousands of a percent vs. 1 thousandth of a percent): http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... The problem with this statistic is that it ties violent crime to race without properly normalizing for income inequality. Efforts to do this have seen mixed results: http://blogs.channel4.com/fact... The only thing that is certain is that poverty and neighborhood conditions are directly and unequivocally linked to major crime. It is pretty clear that promoting education and opportunity is vastly more effective at reducing crime and violence than targeting race.
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.
Many Arctic communities have high murder and suicide rates. Also very high rates of depression and alcoholism.
poverty and corruption track with homicides worldwide. not skin color you racist moron
it's kind of ironic, but it requires intellectual inferiority to believe in a theory of superiority via skin color
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True, but Greenland is for the entire nation.
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The entire nation of Greenland is a small community (about 50,000 people).
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That list is alphabetical. When you look at the rate, none of the African counties comes close to Venezuela or Honduras.
When I looked at the estimated per-capita gun ownership rates by state, and the per-capita homicide rates per state, I didn't find a clear correlation.
Interestingly, it does appear that states with a higher gun homicide rates also have a correlation with higher non-gun homicide rates.
So long as lack of women's rights and inbreeding don't bother you. There's also the Mutaween and the executions for sorcery. When a woman who converted to Christianity was burnt to death after having her tongue cut out by her father, it didn't count as a homicide in that country.
It is statistically a fact that in the U.S. a black person is roughly 7 times more likely to commit murder than a white person (about 7 thousands of a percent vs. 1 thousandth of a percent):
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
The problem with this statistic is that it ties violent crime to race without properly normalizing for income inequality. Efforts to do this have seen mixed results: http://blogs.channel4.com/fact...
The only thing that is certain is that poverty and neighborhood conditions are directly and unequivocally linked to major crime. It is pretty clear that promoting education and opportunity is vastly more effective at reducing crime and violence than targeting race.
If you normalised for income, wouldn't the stats then say that poor black people are much more likely to murder than poor white or asian people?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
But then you might like Japan, with 0.3 :) But only if you're a man. Women get killer more over there.
I'd be surprised if women are allowed to murder in Saudi Arabia.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
more poverty = more crime
more blacks = more poverty, because of racism and history
so when you are a racist, you are simply identifying yourself as the cause of the problem
you are what is wrong with the world
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poverty and corruption track with homicides worldwide. not skin color you racist moron
it's kind of ironic, but it requires intellectual inferiority to believe in a theory of superiority via skin color
That must be why the 24% of the 54 million Hispanics who live below the poverty line in the US commit over half the violent crime.
No, wait.
That would be the 27% of the 40 million or so blacks who live below the poverty line in the US who commit over half the violent crimes.
So, let's see...
There are more Hispanics living below the poverty line in the US (12 million) than there are blacks (10 million). Hell, there are almost twice as many WHITES living in poverty in the US (19 million) than there are blacks (10 million).
Yet blacks commit over half of all violent crime. But only make up 20% or so of those living in poverty...
Think that might be because when a 300-lb HISPANIC thug beats up a convenience store clerk while committing a robbery and then gets his ass shot assaulting a police officer, the Hispanics don't go and burn down their own damn neighborhood?
Yeah, it must be Whitey that made Michael Brown into a thug.
Dumbasses like you who cry "RAAAACIST!!!" at everything are going to have a problem when the media stops portraying BLACK 300-lb thugs who rob stores, beating up people in the process, and then get shot assaulting police as "innocent teens".
poverty and corruption track with homicides worldwide. not skin color you racist moron
it's kind of ironic, but it requires intellectual inferiority to believe in a theory of superiority via skin color
Whatever.
When one ethnic group creates, perpetuates and celebrates a shitty culture that keeps them in poverty, keeps them dumb and uneducated, keeps them in prison and keeps them breeding bastards that don't know who their fathers are (or care) then it's not entirely unfair to blame the ethnicity for their culture.
Being black, and being though of as a criminal because of it is a SELF INFLICTED cultural phenomena. When that stops, what you perceive as racism (using blanket statements) will stop. You are confusing the short-hand used to talk about the problem with the problem. Ask a real African from Africa about what they think of american blacks. Ask that black family in the nice house and the nice job. You'll either get silence, or a shake of the head and a sigh or a rant, because they all know the truth too.
No it's not. There are second rate citizens all over the world, refugees in Europe for example or Tibetans in China.
Although poverty has some influence on 'petty' criminality such as theft and drug use, education levels and religion are the main correlation in assault and rape crimes.
Given that in urban US there are many that are anti-education and pro-religion, the cycle will repeat itself.
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Detroit killed itself. It did not need, and indeed did not want, help from anyone else, including its own suburbs.
Detroit, to my knowledge, is the only city in MI with its own income tax.
Funny. I see teens and young twenty-somethings carrying semi-automatic weapons everywhere. On the streets, in the mall, on buses and trains. Even occasionally in synagogues. Yet, somehow, Israel is not particularly high on the list of murder statistics. Perhaps guns themselves have little to do with it?
Not really any surprises here I must say...
While some members of the British government may have had leanings towards the South, in practical terms Britain stayed very neutral.
Some industrial workers even threatened to boycott Confederate cotton, even while their bosses were lobbying for the Royal Navy to break the blockade.
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If I see a Black Person, I see someone that belongs to a group statistically way, way more likely to murder or injure me. They are more likely to do drugs, be poorly educated and be a deadbeat father.
It simply doesn't matter what the root cause was, I know they should be avoided.
If you were interested in designing and/or implementing public policies to reduce crime, drug abuse, etc, then understanding the root causes is probably pretty important. If your only interest is in minimizing your personal exposure to risk, then understanding the actual statisctical underpinings of your fears might also be of use. Is your actual risk actually changed if you avoid ALL blacks? Should you be looking at relative risk changes or absolute risk changes? Are the risks worth worrying about in any case given your current risk parctices in terms of driving, eating, smoking or other potentially dangerous activits. Worring about 5 murders per 100,000 population might not be as important to worry about when you compare it to more than twice that rate in automobile deaths for example.
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When I looked at the estimated per-capita gun ownership rates by state, and the per-capita homicide rates per state, I didn't find a clear correlation.
Interestingly, it does appear that states with a higher gun homicide rates also have a correlation with higher non-gun homicide rates.
I think that there is a pretty strong correlation between a "culture of honor" and interpersonal violence. The social norms that insist on retribution and payback for transgressions, outside the pervue of established law inforcement can also contribute.
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Well said.
I wish racists would also understand that their behavior is actually the cause of what they complain about. Therefore the solution is to get rid of the racists. Since we cannot just murder the useless low iq wastes of lives as they deserve, like John Brown would, then I suppose I have to make peace with a very very slow remedial hand holding education for the moronic pieces of shit. So thank you.
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Democrats killed Detroit via Unions out pricing cars for the world market. Higher wages means higher product price.
Try looking at the non homicide crime rate. It drops dramatically when legal owners have guns. Especially rape and muggings.
In your rush to blame black people, you completely ignored the fact that black people are far more likely to be poor, and it's poor people who commit crimes. Ignoring the white poor people who are just as criminal in their behaviour speaks volumes about your real intent in making that point.
So you are so desperate to attack black people you don't mind showing everyone your complete lack of understanding of cause and effect. Brilliant. Why should anyone pay any attention to your hate-filled drivel when you can't even be bothered to understand the subject at hand?
Elucidate, please.