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How many "big Brazilian city" do you know or visited?
If I believe what is shown on TV (First 48 Hours) so, I can say too: Pretty much every big American city has an extremely hig per capita muder rate.
Not NYC, Minneapolis, Denver, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Honolulu, El Paso, Boston, Omaha.
And what about: Detroit, Washington, Flint, New Orleans, Cleveland, Oakland and others?
You said pretty much every American city has a high violent crime rate. I listed the cities I listed to show you it isn't all true. Many cities have high violent crime rates. Many don't. What about Des Moines, Colorado Springs, Albuquerque, St. Paul, Madison, San Jose?
Probably Baghdad, Kabul, Mogadishu, Beirut and Gaza of course. Close up would be Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez especiallyh in the past couple years with the drug cartels openly challenging the Mexican police and military. That is very shocking and disturbing actually.....I live in an American city with a lot of drug crimes and violence but the gangs and criminals here all fear the police. In Mexico they are openly assassinating police chiefs and even engagin the army in combat. When this happens in your country....when criminals are armed with military weapons and have the police on the run you know the state has literally "failed" and if the Mexican government doesn't bring this under control there is a catastrophe waiting to happen down there.
More people have been killed in Mexico's drug war in the past 5 years than in Israel-Palestine in the same period, and that is also more deaths than 30 years of conflict and terrorism in Northern Ireland.
Sarajevo and Belfast have improved very significantly in the past decade.
port-au-prince, haiti - ciudad juárez, mexico (the murder capital of the world) - caracas, venezuela (former murder capital) - jo'burg, south africa - cape town (townships) south africa - kingston, jamaica - baghdad, iraq - rio, brazil - sao paolo, brazil - mogidishu, somalia, without doubt the most dangerous places on the planet
Everybbody here is listing cities based on statistics that arent relaiable as they are produced by the third world. (im leaving here so im part of it).
Id say that ti could be more interesting if each one talks about its own experience or, at least, about the experience of a close person.
In mi case i have no doubts that buenos aires, not the centre but the suburbs are really violent places. I cant compare them with other places but if a real index could be made im sure we should rank really high.
Because there is a total lack of justice. The jails are full, the government doesnt care and the amount of drugs in the slums (or villa miseria) is killing the youth (and they are killing the rest of the population).
And i understand that brasil has similar problemas but at least they are doing something to solve the problem. I see in the news that the police working with the army are entering in the favelas and driving out the drug dealers.
port-au-prince, haiti - ciudad juárez, mexico (the murder capital of the world) - caracas, venezuela (former murder capital) -
As bad as Juarez is, Caracas is still murder capital.
"Roberto Briceño-León of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, an NGO, says that a government report he has obtained puts the national murder rate at 75 per 100,000 people, up from 49 just four years ago and almost twice the rate in neighbouring Colombia where guerrillas continue to wage war.
"The report estimates the murder rate in Caracas at an astonishing 220 per 100,000 people. That is higher even than in Mexico’s drug-ridden Ciudad Juárez."
As bad as Juarez is, Caracas is still murder capital.
"Roberto Briceño-León of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, an NGO, says that a government report he has obtained puts the national murder rate at 75 per 100,000 people, up from 49 just four years ago and almost twice the rate in neighbouring Colombia where guerrillas continue to wage war.
"The report estimates the murder rate in Caracas at an astonishing 220 per 100,000 people. That is higher even than in Mexico’s drug-ridden Ciudad Juárez."
Funny I was reading about port moresby and papua new guinea. Such a shame it's so dangerous. I was watching a really good documentary "the lost land of the volcano". This team of scientists explored PNG, and found new wildlife.
Has anyone been to png?
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