America keeps being the continent of the top criminality rates (crime, country)

[Mr.Falcon]

Among the 50 most violent cities of the world, 47 are in Americas. The other 3 are in South Africa. 2014 data:

1 San Pedro Sula Honduras 1,317 769,025 171.20
2 Caracas Venezuela 3,797 3,273,863 115.98
3 Acapulco México 883 847,735 104.16
4 João Pessoa Brasil 620 780,738 79.41
5 Distrito Central Honduras 928 1,195,456 77.65
6 Maceió Brasil 733 1,005,319 72.91
7 Valencia Venezuela 1086 1,527,920 71.08
8 Fortaleza Brasil 2,541 3,818,380 66.55
9 Cali Colombia 1,530 2,344,734 65.25
10 São Luís Brasil 908 1,403,111 64.71
11 Natal Brasil 931 1,462,045 63.68
12 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela 536 862,720 62.13
13 San Salvador El Salvador 1,067 1,743,315 61.21
14 Cape Town Sudáfrica 2,244 3,740,026 60.00
15 Vitoria Brasil 1074 1,884,096 57.00
16 Cuiabá Brasil 467 827,104 56.46
17 Salvador Brasil 2,129 3,919,864 54.31
18 Belém Brasil 1,130 2,129,515 53.06
19 ST. Louis Estados Unidos 159 318,416 49.93
20 Teresina Brasil 416 840,600 49.49
21 Barquisimeto Venezuela 601 1,293,693 46.46
22 Detroit Estados Unidos 309 688,701 44.87
23 Goiânia Brasil 633 1,412,364 44.82
24 Culiacán México 384 910,564 42.17
25 Guatemala Guatemala 1,288 3,074,054 41.90
26 Kingston Jamaica 495 1,219,366 40.59
27 Juárez México 538 1,347,165 39.94
28 New Orleans Estados Unidos 150 378,715 39.61
29 Recife Brasil 1518 3,887,261 39.05
30 Campina Grande Brasil 153 402,912 37.97
31 Obregón México 120 318,184 37.71
32 Palmira Colombia 114 302,727 37.66
33 Manaus Brasil 749 2,020,301 37.07
34 Nuevo Laredo México 142 406,598 34.92
35 Nelson Mandela Bay Sudáfrica 402 1,152,115 34.89
36 Pereira Colombia 162 467,185 34.68
37 Porto Alegre Brasil 1,442 4,161,237 34.65
38 Durban Sudáfrica 1187 3,442,361 34.48
39 Aracaju Brasil 312 912,647 34.19
40 Baltimore Estados Unidos 211 622,104 33.92
41 Victoria México 117 345,080 33.91
42 Belo Horizonte Brasil 1,926 5,767,414 33.39
43 Chihuahua México 289 868,145 33.29
44 Curitiba Brasil 587 1,864,416 31.48
45 Tijuana México 502 1,678,880 29.90
46 Macapá Brasil 129 446,757 28.87
47 Cúcuta Colombia 183 643,666 28.43
48 Torreón México 330 1,186,637 27.81
49 Medellín Colombia 657 2,441,123 26.91
50 Cuernavaca México 168 660,215 25.45

USA
BRAZIL
MEXICO
OTHER LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRY
SOUTH AFRICA

[UrbanLuis]

[rosa surf]

Horrible.

[StreetLegal]

Interesting (and depressing) data Mr. Falcon. What was the source for those figures?

[Sugah Ray]

And it's probably much worse than what those figures state in some cities.


Colombia's Invisible War - The Atlantic

"Aware of the government's push to lower homicide rates, armed groups here have turned their fight into an invisible war. "Where they used to assassinate, now they disappear," Vidal continues. According to PCN's count, at least 378 people have gone missing in the last four years--probably taken to the sea and killed. Those presumed deaths won't show up in the official numbers, allowing both the authorities and the criminal gangs to claim victory in the latest stage of this dark war."

[Mr.Falcon]

Originally Posted by StreetLegal

Interesting (and depressing) data Mr. Falcon. What was the source for those figures?

Por cuarto año consecutivo, San Pedro Sula es la ciudad más violenta del mundo

[StreetLegal]

Thanks for the link.

[mooguy]

It's a sad reality but compared to every continent/s the Americas is the most violent with the exception of Africa but much of that is due to never-ending wars. The Caribbean is also very violent.

In the context of the Americas, Canada is the anomaly having, by far, the lowest crime and murder rates that are much more akin to Western European countries.

[Tiger Beer]

I think pretty much EVERY northeastern Brazil is well-represented on that list. I guess the drugs are really rampaging through that part of Brazil in a very serious way. Definitely no longer the laid-back part of the country anymore.

It looks like a number of southern Brazilian cities made the Top 50 list such as Porto Alegre and Curitiba as well.

On the plus side, RIO, Sao Paulo and Florianapolis are nowhere on that list, so I suppose that is a very good thing!

[Irene-cd]

Inequality and the American war on drugs have turn the Americas into a war zone

1. tackle inequality
2. legalize drugs

and you'll have the peaceful continent u had in the 50's

I recall my mom telling me in Colombia you could actually leave your door open in the 70s and go out shopping and no one would come into your house, and murders would be something that would be published in the media and people would be shocked about it and discuss it for days (she recalls a man being stabbed in bogota and it was talked about in the national news for weeks!)

the 80's came, pablo escobar, CIA etc and it all went to crap