Murder rates for Latin America and Caribbean 2023

[CosmoLady]

Europe, wtf Latvia, Lithuania and Moldova region in Romania

btw, England has the lowest - so all the non-Euro immigration is not actually bringing homicides then?

For 2022, the UK has a similar homicide rate to France, Belgium, Sweden, Scotland, Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Serbia,
this appears to be the "normal" rate for Europe. This is NOT good, though probably an improvement for the Balkans.
Italy, Switzerland, Cyprus, Iceland have half the rate of these countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._homicide_rate

England is slightly more dangerous, has a homicide rate closer to Romania or Egypt or Finland (due to drunkenness?)

In London, 60% of homicide suspects are black (13% of the population)

The graphic does not consider the total population and population densities of the various places,
so this does not help with assessing the overall crime rate or quality of life of a given country.

[CosmoLady]

Drug barons wielding disproportionate amounts of power, and duking their struggles out on the streets. Unlike the Haitian case, the state still has enough presence to make itself felt, but not by much.

Jamaica has wealthy drug lords similar to Mexico,
multi-billionaires like Christopher Coke who have their own gang armies and control territory.
(Coke was captured and extradited, but there are others like him.)

Occasional crackdowns on the gangs are massive military operations, several dozen police/soldiers are killed,
which shows how serious the problem is, but nothing like the anarchic Haiti.

I think that Haiti's true murder rate is much worse,
most murders are not even counted, bodies are not even removed from the streets.

A warlord named Barbecue controls the capital with his army,
which is famous for massacres and burning people alive and eating their body parts or feeding them to animals.

And these cannibal gangs are very well armed,
and have police/military/tactical uniforms and vehicles, funded by the US taxpayer.