50 deadliest cities in 2015

[Syt]

... almost half of them in Brazil.

Sorry for the Mail link, but it was the first English language source I found that didn't have the list as a clickbait slideshow.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3419140/The-50-violent-cities-world-revealed-21-Brazil.html

THE 50 MOST DANGEROUS CITIES IN THE WORLD - BY HOMICIDES PER 100,000 INHABITANTS IN 2015

1. Caracas, Venezuela – 119.87
2. San Pedro Sula, Honduras – 111.03
3. San Salvador, El Salvador – 108.54
4. Acapulco, Mexico – 104.73
5. Maturin, Venezuela – 86.45
6. Distrito Central, Honduras – 73.51
7. Valencia, Venezuela – 72.31
8. Palmira, Colombia – 70.88
9. Cape Town, South Africa – 65.53
10. Cali, Colombia – 64.27
11. Cuidad Guayana, Venezuela – 62.33
12. Fortaleza, Brazil – 60.77
13. Natal, Brazil – 60.66
14. Salvador, Brazil – 60.63
15. St Louis, Missouri, U.S. – 59.23
16. Joao Pessoa, Brazil – 58.40
17. Culiacan, Mexico – 56.09
18. Maceio, Brazil – 55.63
19. Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. – 54.98
20. Barquisimeto, Venezuela – 54.96
21. Sao Luis, Brazil – 53.05
22. Cuiaba, Brazil – 48.52
23. Manaus, Brazil – 47.87
24. Cumana, Venezuela – 47.77
25. Guatemala City, Guatemala – 47.17
26. Belem, Brazil – 45.83
27. Feira de Santana, Brazil – 45.5
28. Detroit, Michigan, U.S. – 43.89
29. Goiania, Brazil – 43.38
30. Teresina, Brazil – 42.64
31. Vitoria, Brazil – 41.99
32. New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. – 41.44
33. Kingston, Jamaica – 41.14
34. Gran Barcelona, Venezuela – 40.08
35. Tijuana, Mexico – 39.09
36. Vitoria da Conquista, Brazil – 38.46
37. Recife, Brazil – 38.12
38. Aracaju. Brazil – 37.7
39. Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil – 36.16
40. Campina Grande, Brazil – 36.04
41. Durban, South Africa – 35.93
42. Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa – 35.85
43. Porto Alegre, Brazil – 34.73
44. Curitiba, Brazil – 34.71
45. Pereira, Colombia – 32.58
46. Victoria, Mexico – 30.50
47. Johannesburg, South Africa – 30.31
48. Macapa, Brazil – 30.25
49. Maracaibo, Venezuela – 28.85
50. Obregon, Mexico – 28.29

[...]The ranking only takes into account cities with a population of more than 300,000, and doesn't include deaths in combat zones or cities with unavailable data – this explains why some cities that would be expected on the list don't feature.[...]

[The Brain]

Syria is doing a lot better than I expected.

[Syt]

Syria is doing a lot better than I expected.

Read the last sentence I quoted.

[Duque de Bragança]

... almost half of them in Brazil.

Venezuela is doing great too, all in all, but no movies to advertise it.

[MadBurgerMaker]

E:  ^^ That was a cool movie ^^

So the Olympics are going to be more exciting than usual?

[Duque de Bragança]

Zika Olympics sure sound exciting. 

[spoiler]BOPE has already cleaned the area I bet[/spoiler]

[Syt]

To be fair, Rio didn't make the list.

[Martinus]

Interesting no cities in Europe or in Asia. I guess being the cradle of civilization pays off.

Almost all cities are located in former European colonies, though. So they should have stayed under Europe's wise patronage, it seems. 

[The Brain]

Syria is doing a lot better than I expected.

Read the last sentence I quoted.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yep, the BOPE has been doing great. What about São Paulo, pacified too? 
More surprising is the presence of Southern Brazil cities, things used to be quieter there, like Curitiba(really?), Porto Alegre (less surprising).
Lots of Nordeste cities, but that's business as usual between droughts and poverty. It seems to be improving, not fast enough though.

[Maladict]

Interesting no cities in Europe or in Asia.

It's just the Americas and South Africa. We should build a wall.

[celedhring]

Spain's homicide rate is 0,76 per 100k people. Apparently the most dangerous city is Badajoz with a heady 1,72 per 100k. 

[Josquius]

St. Louis at 15
I had no idea.
There goes all considerations of taking a transfer to there.

[alfred russel]

Interesting no cities in Europe or in Asia. I guess being the cradle of civilization pays off.

That is only because the actual cradle of civilization is in so much chaos right now that it is too unsafe to measure the data. 

[Brezel]

Surprised to see so many cities outside of Latin America on the list. Baltimore, St. Louis and Detroit top Tijuana?

Of course when cops shoot people in Mexico it probably doesn't count as homicide.