"50 Most Dangerous Cities Of The World Revealed" Topic

If you are going to travel there… (smile)

"* Latin America is home to 41 of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world
* Caracas in Venezuela is now the most violent, according to homicide rate
* Took the top spot from San Pedro Sula, in Honduras, now in second place
* Drug trafficking, gang wars, political instability and corruption are blamed
* U.S. cities St Louis, Baltimore, Detroit and New Orleans are also named

The 50 most dangerous cities in the world have been named and shamed, and an astonishing 21 of them are in Brazil.
Latin America features highly in the ranking, released by Mexico's Citizens' Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, as it is home to some 41 of the cities listed.
Drug trafficking, gang wars, political instability, corruption and poverty are to blame for the high homicide rates across the region, which has just 8 per cent of the world's population, according to UN data.
But the list doesn't just include Latin America, with U.S. cities St Louis, Baltimore, Detroit and New Orleans also featuring…"
Full article here
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It should be noted that the cities that are engulfed by war (Baghdad, Damscus, Kabul, Aleppo, etc.) are not on this list….

Amicalement
Armand

Detroit has fallen to 28th? Now when I lived there back in the day – - -

Of course, we in the UK regard everything in the Daily Mail as gospel truth!
(pardon the heavy sarcasm)

Ah, exercising the news source rule reform steamingdave, well done!

I am happy to see that my village (all five houses of it) did not make the list.

I live and work in Baltimore…it's a shooting gallery…

It should be noted that the cities that are engulfed by war … are not on this list

U.S. cities … Detroit and New Orleans are also named

Contradiction?

What about D.C. and Chicago?

Far away my friend… far away… (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

What about D.C. and Chicago?

DC is more of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Not that familiar with Chicago.

unfortunately many of the more dopey comments in the original DM piece (the UK and Europe cover up crime records – yeah right of murders) are by Americans – it would be a great country if not for the significant % of far right wing whites

also those kind of figures do leave out that in many places the murders are gang related – one group of gang members shooting up another – of course civilians get killed in the cross fire as do police officers etc. I've lived and worked in the NW of England and both Liverpool and Manchester have had spates of fatal shootings at different times – but 99% of the time as they say 'the victim is believed to have been known to the perpetrators' but sometimes people from other parts of the country have said I wouldnt go to live there based on media coverage of these incidents