The fifty most violent cities in the world

[Value Buy]

Here is a list of the 50 most violent cities in the world.

The article is in Spanish so I do not know what the criteria was to put the list together.

Obviously, the Middle East is not in the mix.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world/ss-AA8LUZK#image=1

[Value Buy]

number 40 is Baltimore, putting it with some really bad company.

28 New Orleans

22 Detroit

19 St Louis

[djAdvocate]

Jan 30, 2015 13:54:24 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Here is a list of the 50 most violent cities in the world.

The article is in Spanish so I do not know what the criteria was to put the list together.

Obviously, the Middle East is not in the mix.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world/ss-AA8LUZK#image=1

i presume you were being sarcastic with your middle east comment, but why?

[Value Buy]

Jan 30, 2015 14:51:14 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Jan 30, 2015 13:54:24 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Here is a list of the 50 most violent cities in the world.

The article is in Spanish so I do not know what the criteria was to put the list together.

Obviously, the Middle East is not in the mix.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world/ss-AA8LUZK#image=1

i presume you were being sarcastic with your middle east comment, but why?

sarcastic? No. I am surprised they are not listed, but then beheadings and bombings are probably not in the official stats.

Tikrut?

Anywhere in Syria?

Just about anywhere in Afghanistan (although that is probably not the ME)

[Value Buy]

Anyway, four of the top fifty are here in the states.

Cities named, are not too much of a surprise, but I expected even they would be in the lower listings.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 30, 2015 14:55:09 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 30, 2015 14:51:14 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

i presume you were being sarcastic with your middle east comment, but why?

sarcastic? No. I am surprised they are not listed, but then beheadings and bombings are probably not in the official stats.

Tikrut?

Anywhere in Syria?

Just about anywhere in Afghanistan (although that is probably not the ME)

a lot of these places don't have statistics. when half your people are starving to death, and your country is in chaos, studying the homicide rate is probably not a priority that even registers.

[Opti]

Jan 30, 2015 14:57:08 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Anyway, four of the top fifty are here in the states.

Cities named, are not too much of a surprise, but I expected even they would be in the lower listings.

It is the official murder rate so everything else is excluded.

[Peace Of Mind]

Mexico didn't surprise me at all but I never realized Brazil was such a violent country.  I'm just glad Miami wasn't on that list.        That's our most violent city in Florida.

[Value Buy]

Jan 30, 2015 15:57:33 GMT -5 Peace Of Mind said:

Mexico didn't surprise me at all but I never realized Brazil was such a violent country.  I'm just glad Miami wasn't on that list.        That's our most violent city in Florida.

Columbia was also pretty high on the list.

We all know what the number one common denominator is on the list.

Drug trafficking.

[kent]

In case you are curious as to how the murder rate (or any other crime rate) is calculated...

Divide the number of murders by the city population and multiply the result by 100,000.

Weren't you just dying to know that? 

ETA  Forgot - I am NOT EVER moving Brazil

[resolution]

I was surprised not to see Chicago on the list. It seems like every time I turn around there is an article about shootings in Chicago, but it must just be some kind of bias.