Murder rates, Latin America and the USA

[Barnabas]

Dis made a thread about wanting to visit dangerous places where he might get killed, it inspired me to search info on this.

Murder Rates per 100.000 inhabitants

54,70 El Salvador
48 Venezuela
39,33 Colombia
33,69 Jamaica
33,63 Brazil
25,47 Guatemala
18,33 Ecuador
15,92 Bahamas
13,04 Mexico
12,05 Paraguay
10,30 Surinam
09,56 Panama
07,49 Barbados
06,23 Costa Rica
05,90 USA
05,64 Uruguay
05,54 Peru
05,48 Argentina
02,82 Bolivia
02,74 Dominica
01,95 Canada
01,71 Chile
01,56 Bermuda

By the way, Bolivia is very safe, in spite of being very poor, this shows culture has a lot to do with violence, it is not just poverty creates violence.




Some cities, murders per 100.000 inhabitants

Caracas over 100
Cali 67
Medellin 56
Rio de Janeiro 48,3
Detroit 39,3
Washington 35,4
Sao Paulo 30,8
Bogota 24
Lima 22
Houston 16,3
Quito 16
Chicago 15,6
Los Angeles 12,6
Miami 9,1
New York 6,6
Mexico city 5,4
Buenos Aires 4,57
Monterrey 2,8
Santiago 1,4



I couldnt find for Ciudad Juarez, they kill a lot of women there, I found sites with different murder rates for Colombia and Venezuela, the murder rates there are so high that it is difficult to know what is true.

It seems that murders have tripled in Caracas, and ONU spoke of a murder rate of around 48 for the country

[LordShiva]

Wow, Caracas sucks.

[SlowwHand]

Dallas murder rate is down. On a related note, we've executed 2 of 5 scheduled for January.

Assault is also down. You never know who has a concealed weapon permit, so it's not a bright idea to bother people.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Dallas murder rate is down. On a related note, we've executed 2 of 5 scheduled for January.

Assault is also down. You never know who has a concealed weapon permit, so it's not a bright idea to bother people.

I wonder why it's not working for Houston.

[SlowwHand]

I don't know. Don't get me started about Houston.

[Chemical Ollie]

And I just applied for a job in Sao Paulo today, at the internal job market in my company

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
And I just applied for a job in Sao Paulo today, at the internal job market in my company

No worries. IIRC In absolute terms you'll still be more likely to get killed simply trying to drive near a major city than get murdered or even know somebody who gets murdered. 30 per hundred thousand a year isn't likely to impact you personally.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Dallas murder rate is down. On a related note, we've executed 2 of 5 scheduled for January.

Assault is also down. You never know who has a concealed weapon permit, so it's not a bright idea to bother people.

Let me channel Candice Bergen in Miss Congeniality:

This is Teaxs. Everyone has a gun. Hell, even my hairdresser carries a gun.

[chequita guevara]

Everyone having a gun has nothing to do with the murder rate falling. More hand guns available means a greater likelihood of someone being able to use one when they get pissed.