Most dangerous cities in the world

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Report released by the Mexican research group Seguridad, Justicia y Paz (Security, Justice and Peace).

The group compiles an annual list of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world.

Cities are listed according to how many murders are committed per 100 000 residents.
http://translate.googleusercontent....egunda&usg=ALkJrhhH8Yq-ID68lbdB9WANphPW21ugNw

San Pedro Sula in Honduras is the most dangerous city in the world, with 159 murders per 100 000 residents.

Juárez in Mexico is second on the list and Maceió in Brazil is third.

There are 14 Brazilian cities on the list and 12 Mexican cities.

Dangerous US cities listed in the report are New Orleans, Detroit, St Louis and Baltimore, which were 21st, 30th, 43rd and 48th on the list respectively.

My city Cape Town is no 34 with 46 murders per 100 000 residents
Use to Johannesburg but they manage to murder each other less last year

 

[WelshBloke]

Wow! Some worrying figures there.

To get myself some perspective I looked up Londons, it's 2.1 per 100k.

South America comes out looking pretty bad there but I'm sure there's places that are worse but have no reliable records.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

London nice and low. Your murders hit the big time news ours you don't see in the news unless its a high profile murder

 

[Dr. Zaus]

After three consecutive years of occupying the first position, the Mexican city of Juarez moved into second place

I'm about 45min north of there. It's disturbing to drive through El Paso and see all the shanty towns.

 

[silverpig]

I'm about 45min north of there. It's disturbing to drive through El Paso and see all the shanty towns.

I drove through El Paso once and even in the non shanty towns, everything had 8 foot walls with barbed wire around it and every window had bars on it.

 

[Ancalagon44]

My city Cape Town is no 34 with 46 murders per 100 000 residents
Use to Johannesburg but they manage to murder each other less last year

Most likely the ANC are under reporting the figures to make crime appear lower in JHB! Cape Town is after all a DA city - there is a vested interest in doing so.

 

[Doppel]

San Pedro Sula in Honduras is the most dangerous city in the world, with 159 murders per 100 000 residents.

Multiply this over a typical lifespan and you end up with about a 5-10% chance of being murdered over your lifetime, which is freaking scary.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Most likely the ANC are under reporting the figures to make crime appear lower in JHB! Cape Town is after all a DA city - there is a vested interest in doing so.

lol
But the Cape has a big drug problem and with it comes the murders. Only thing that kept Johannesburg murders high is Hillbrow

But the point your making looking at it is a very good one. Because a murder docket stays a murder when no one can found responsible for the murder it goes to a Inquest court where a inquest inquiry will be held and it will be closed down. Now especially if there was a not guilty verdict on a suspect it will normally get closed down as a inquest and won't be open again. Now a Inquest is the same as a suicide or someone who died in a hospital or was young etc etc where a inquest must be held to make sure it was natural etc etc. So they could've slipped it with those.

Surprise by your knowledge in our politics btw lol been a ex resident here?

 

[Ancalagon44]

Not ex resident, current resident. I live in Bryanston, Joburg.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Multiply this over a typical lifespan and you end up with about a 5-10% chance of being murdered over your lifetime, which is freaking scary.

The people that drop down from no 2 must be chuffed. Mmm we are not anymore. Hey Jose go gun down one of the villages we don't need. That should get us to no 1 again

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Not ex resident, current resident. I live in Bryanston, Joburg.

lol a Vaalie been as hot up there like its been here?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Not a single European city.

Damn them Europeons! They can't do anything right. America! Fuck yeah!

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Not a single European city.

Damn them Europeons! They can't do anything right. America! Fuck yeah!

New Orleans and Detroit are they that bad? I always thought our crime rate is higher than the US lol

 

[Arcadio]

Damn... sad to see 5 Colombian cities in that list. Go back 10 years and you would've seen many more, though.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Don't think they included the people that went missing in the coke fields lol

 

[SandEagle]

New Orleans and Detroit are they that bad? I always thought our crime rate is higher than the US lol

yes, Detroit sucks balls. a neighbor of mine was shot 8 times. dispute over money. /shrug

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

yes, Detroit sucks balls. a neighbor of mine was shot 8 times. dispute over money. /shrug

did he survive? Normally the hits in our red areas are gang killings. Hitman walking up to a guy clear daylight and gun a target down. The community normally don't say a thing because either being too scared or the don't want to bite the hand that feeds them as the drug lords give the communities more than what the government promised and never delivered.

 

[Ancalagon44]

lol a Vaalie been as hot up there like its been here?

I dont know - I spend all day in an air conditioned office or air conditioned car! But I dont think its been too bad.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

I dont know - I spend all day in an air conditioned office or air conditioned car! But I dont think its been too bad.

You guys 30 is our 40's thanks to your dry weather. But our sea breeze is gone. Feels like Jhb stole our weather as well lol

 

[ichy]

New Orleans and Detroit are they that bad? I always thought our crime rate is higher than the US lol

Speaking as a resident of city #48 (go Baltimore!) your chances of getting murdered if you're a law-abiding citizen who doesn't associate with hoodlums is quite small. The overwhelming majority of murder victims are either in the drug trade or degenerates who get into fights over petty disputes. There's a loathsome ghetto culture which says you should respond with violence if you're "disrespected" so you've got a lot of hoodrats murdering each other over idiotic things.

 

[bignateyk]

Note to self: Stay the fuck out of central/south america.

The top 20 are all central/south america.
40/50 are central/south america.

It seems odd that there are so few countries on the list. Outside of central/south america it's basically just the US and South Africa. Are there reallly no other dangerous cities in places like Russia, Thailand, Afghanistan, Somolia, etc...?

 

[QuantumPion]

London nice and low. Your murders hit the big time news ours you don't see in the news unless its a high profile murder

That's because many murders are only reported as assault if the victim dies in the hospital (e.g. they count it as bleeding to death due to natural causes, the natural cause being a large hole in the chest caused by a knife). Governments do tricky things messing with how they report data to get the results they want.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

The only real surprise is that Gary didn't make the list, but I didn't read the entire article so I assume that maybe it didn't make a population cut or something.

St. Louis has been awful for as long as I can remember. When I was 10 (1980), my mom and dad took my brother and I there for a weekend. While we were in the zoo, our car was broken into and ransacked. We were fortunate, because apparently those hoodlums actually killed some people while robbing them in the vicinity. I went back for business in 2009 and while they had some nice areas, I wouldn't feel safe walking there alone after dusk.

 

[TechBoyJK]

I'm in downtown St. Louis right now!

 

[Exterous]

Are there reallly no other dangerous cities in places like Russia, Thailand, Afghanistan, Somolia, etc...?

That was my thought as well. I wonder if its just because a lot of those places are so effed up they don't even bother to report their number

I'm in downtown St. Louis right now!

Can I have your stuff?