For the first time the US has some cities on the list, could you name them before looking?
Mex, Bra and Venezuela are the big winners, surprises?
No Chicago? Hm.
Haha, St Louis sucks.
I wouldn’t have guessed St. Louis. My guesses were Cleveland, NO and Baltimore. 2/3.
I would have guessed DC, Detroit, Chicago. Surprised by St. Louis.
Chicago is ok in most parts. If you zone in on that area with all the shootings, it’s probably awful though. St Louis is a sh*thole. Who are we kidding.
Brazil really cleaned up on that list.
St. Louis had a HUGE increase in murders in 2015 for some unknown (unknown to me, at least) reason… they were predominantly limited to north St. Louis city and north st. louis county. It was pretty depressing to turn on the news everyday between the climbing murder rate and the Mike Brown bullsh$% that seemed to drag on forever.
St. Louis is pretty surprising. East St. Louis (a separate city) is basically Gaza, but the rest of STL is not too bad.
this is partially true. East St. Louis is not only a separate city, it’s also in a separate state (IL). It pales in comparison to the murder numbers that come out of north st. louis city. North st. louis city is pretty much a war zone. North st. louis county is your typical economically depressed suburb that has plenty of riff-raff that provides its fair share of murders/violent crime.
Haven’t read it and avoided looking at other comments. Not sure how many US cities are on there, but assuming it’s a per capita list I’ll go with: Camden, NJ; Washington, DC; and Baltimore, MD.
Edit: Can’t believe I didnt’ think of Detroit or St. Louis. New Orleans kind of surprises me.
DC? this is not 10-15 years ago people. I would guess Bmore, Dtroit, Oaktown off the top of my head
I’m surprised that there are no border towns on there. San Diego doesn’t strike me as particularly bad, but El Paso and Laredo/McAllen sure do.
I was right on Baltimore and Detroit. St. Louis and New Orleans surprised me. My next guesses (after the two above) would have been DC, Miami, or Little Rock (which is surprisingly gang-infested).
Darien, CT didnt make the list?
Not a single country in the middle east? I think they need need to recalculate to include war zones.
Donald Trump? San Diego is one of the few places in the U.S. that I feel as safe as at home.
I’m guessing population size and accurate reporting is what’s screening those areas out.
And, maybe war fatalities don’t count as murders. Again, just guessing.
My guess is that there is severe sampling bias to locations where there are statistics collected in the first place.
In the most crazy-violent zones, things are so chaotic that you don’t even know how many people got murdered, or - in the most extreme zones - even how many people live there.
Interesting to see that I’ve been to a lot of those places in Brazil, and some in Mexico, too. I had to laugh when they listed Vitória, Brazil, and then used a photo of some indigenous indians from (I think it was) Pará as the photo caption. It’s like saying Detroit is a dangerous city in the US and then using the Oregon Militia Standoff as the photo caption.
If you look at the photo captions, you’ll see that a bunch of them have little or nothing to do with the city or the topic presented. Quality stuff, Business Insider!
Yeah, the article mentioned they excluded countries with war, or cities where data is not good. So I thought, wow Mexico and Brazil must just have pretty good murder counting policy. Imagine if you put in Syria or Somalia, or some other places that are truly awful.
I’ve been to quite a few of these blissfully unaware of how dangerous they were. I was quite obviously poor at the time so i’m sure that helped.
at the risk of prompting a “'merica is fucking great” response, it’s pretty disgraceful that there are US cities on this list…