REVEALED: The 50 most violent cities on Earth - with St Louis coming in at 13

superbeets · Mar 9, 2018

[h=1]Revealed: The 50 most dangerous cities in the world[/h]

South and Central America dominate list of world's most violent cities with 42 of the top 50
Brazil has the most cities on the list which also includes four from the US and three from South Africa
Los Cabos, in Mexico, is the most violent in the world, followed by Caracas, in Venezuela, and Acapulco
Authors praised a drop in violence in Honduras, but said the situation in Mexico is spiraling out of control

superbeets · Mar 9, 2018

South and Central America dominate a list of the most violent cities on earth, with the United States and South Africa also making an appearance.
Los Cabos, in Mexico, has been named the most violent city in the world according to a new report, with Caracas, in Venezuela and Acapulco in second and third. Of the top 50 cities, 42 of them are in South America.
In the United States, the cities of St Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans and Detroit also made the list, with Cape Town, Durban and Nelson Mandela Bay, of South Africa, appearing in the top 50.
Jamaica, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala also featured.

superbeets · Mar 9, 2018

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Mexican researchers have ranked the world's 50 most violent cities by homicide rate per 100,000 residents. Brazil featured the most times, with 17 entries, and second was Mexico (pictured, gang violence in Guerrero state) with 12

superbeets · Mar 9, 2018

Brazil was the country which featured the greatest number of times, with 17 cities on the list, followed by Mexico, Venezuela and the United States.
The list was complied by Mexican anti-violence think-tank Seguridad, Justicia Y Paz (Security, Justice and Peace) and ranks each city according to homicide rate per 100,000 residents.
In the case of St Louis, researchers found it had 205 murders in 2017 of a population of 300,000 for a murder rate of 65.83 per 100,000 people, ranking it 13th. Violence in the state of Missouri has been bubbling under since the Ferguson riots of 2014 and 2015.
Authors found that, compared to 2016, there has been a marked decrease in violence in Honduras, with its only two cities on the list dropping from third and fourth to 26th and 35th respectively.

superbeets · Mar 9, 2018

The report praises the Honduran government for its efforts to tackle organised criminal gangs and restore order in prisons as being behind the drop.
Another country which saw a drop in violence was Venezuela, although this was not a good thing, the report says.
The reason for the drop is not because of a fall in violence, but a weakening of government control meaning authorities can no longer effectively count the number of homicides in their cities.
Researchers point to two cities - Cumaná and Gran Barcelona - which were removed from the top 50 table but only because they could not effectively establish the murder rate.

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Venezuela featured five times on the list, fewer than previous years, though researchers said this is because the government has lost the ability to collect effective data amid widespread anti-regime protests

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Los Cabos, in Mexico, was ranked as the most violent city in the world, the first year it has featured anywhere on the list

superbeets · Mar 9, 2018

Venezuela was gripped by often violent anti-government protests in 2017 amid widespread starvation and allegations of corruption against the regime of Nicholas Maduro.
Meanwhile violence in cartel-plagued Mexico saw a sharp rise in 2017, the report says, with 12 cities included on the list where there was just five back in 2015.
That decline is reflected in the nationwide homicide rate which hit a record 29,000 last year, topping the previous peak at the height of the country's drug war in 2011. The figure was the highest since records began in 1997.
Turf battles caused by the emergence of the Jalisco New Generation cartel is believed to be responsible.
San Salvador, in El Salvador, home of the bloodthirsty MS13 gang, also features at number 17 on the list.
The highest-ranked North American city was St Louis, Missouri, which came in at number 13 with a homicide rate of 65.83 per 100,000 residents. The other three to feature were Baltimore, New Orleans and Detroit.
One city from Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Jamaica also appears in the rankings, as do three from South Africa.

Willie99 · Mar 9, 2018

When did Cabos become crime invested?

When I was there all the talk was about how low the crime rate is, and I certainly didn't see such violent neighborhoods, the streets were safe, tons of pedestrian traffic and we went off the resort almost daily

Willie99 · Mar 9, 2018

Willie99 said:
When did Cabos become crime invested?

When I was there all the talk was about how low the crime rate is, and I certainly didn't see such violent neighborhoods, the streets were safe, tons of pedestrian traffic and we went off the resort almost daily

wow, a quick search seems to indicate crime is spiking in that region, although not against tourists, seems gang and drug related

rolltide · Mar 9, 2018

I know sometimes you guys have trouble connecting the dots as you look for a lib vs rino talking point but please understand the obscenely high rate of northern South America and Central American countries on this list has to do with violence associated with American drug consumption, not politics. People aren't killing each other in enormous rates in Mex, El Sal, and Hondo because of their political system, they're doing it over the war to control the drug flow into the USA.

our "war on drugs" campaign has far-reaching consequences when paired up against our appetite for banned substances

festeringZit · Mar 9, 2018

rolltide said:
I know sometimes you guys have trouble connecting the dots as you look for a lib vs rino talking point but please understand the obscenely high rate of northern South America and Central American countries on this list has to do with violence associated with American drug consumption, not politics. People aren't killing each other in enormous rates in Mex, El Sal, and Hondo because of their political system, they're doing it over the war to control the drug flow into the USA.

our "war on drugs" campaign has far-reaching consequences when paired up against our appetite for banned substances

Showtime has an excellent new series called "the trade" which documents the heroin industry from both the Mexico side and US
side of the border. It's an awful drug and an awful problem.

Michelangelo · Mar 9, 2018

Kill the dealers. One chance only. Second offense is your last.

Only solution to the problem. The ONLY solution.

Willie99 · Mar 10, 2018

rolltide said:
I know sometimes you guys have trouble connecting the dots as you look for a lib vs rino talking point but please understand the obscenely high rate of northern South America and Central American countries on this list has to do with violence associated with American drug consumption, not politics. People aren't killing each other in enormous rates in Mex, El Sal, and Hondo because of their political system, they're doing it over the war to control the drug flow into the USA.

our "war on drugs" campaign has far-reaching consequences when paired up against our appetite for banned substances

The war on drugs has been lost, and legalization would actually reduce violent crime, clean up decaying neighborhoods, decrease prison population and free up our courts (in the states anyhow, not sure how that would help drug producing countries)

However, we can't make all drugs legal, heroin for example, so there's always going to be some drug related violence

Having said all that, sans the drugs, would you really as safe in East St Louis or Baltimore or Detroit as you would in say San Diego or Portland (OR or ME). How about the South Side of Chicago vs downtown? Manhattan vs the Bronx?

Rudy got tough on crime in the 90's, it worked

There is an element of society that's more violent, all communities are not the same, and I'm going to suggest two parent families are where it starts and they're much better off in the long run

rolltide · Mar 10, 2018

Willie99 said:
Having said all that, sans the drugs, would you really as safe in East St Louis or Baltimore or Detroit as you would in say San Diego or Portland (OR or ME). How about the South Side of Chicago vs downtown? Manhattan vs the Bronx?

pointing to sections of those cities and then say "sans the drugs" is like talking about McDonald's "sans the burgers"

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