What’s up with New Hampshire that it’s on par with the EU countries?
Authright (PCM) has an answer but I won’t repeat it here
Latvia is the Louisiana of Europe
Missouri is actually #1 if you count all the copicides.
Ah yes, the mostly aptly named state, misery.
Not to brag but at least Illinois isn’t the worst. That, as usual, goes to the Worst State in the Union in over 90% of all categories, Louisiana.
Lousy Ana
Imagine how bad it would be if Americans didn’t have guns to defend themselves.
And if those guns didn’t have guns of their own.
UK isn’t included for some reason, but in 2020 it was 1.00.
I eanted to say “Duh brexit” but as switzerland is also included and some other non-eu states…
Whoo!! Better than Latvia!
If you can make it here you ca…. Oh someone killed you…
If I can make it here I ca…
“Surely not!” And then with a heavy sigh, I remembered Baltimore.
Same thing happened to me 😔
Louisianians be like “Chicago tho amirite”
What’s the deal with Louisiana?
Corruption, poor education, overpowered oil/gas lobby, for-profit prison system that encourages recidivism
And that’s just scratching the surface
outside of NO, the region is reletively low on education, poverty ridden and low opportunity. its the trio that makes high homicide rate.
reletively low on education
You don’t say
Oh there’s plenty of people killing each other in the city too.
Wasn’t that where true detective season 1 was based in? Says all you need to know.
Hot and humid all the time.
I remember reading something while ago that did link high temperatures with higher rates of things like violence. Essentially, being hot all the damn time makes everyone’s baseline level of irritability higher and so things escalate more often. Seems a bit counter-intuitive though if we all came from Africa so I’m not sure how true it ultimately is.
In Europe the stereotype is definitely that “blood gets warmer” the more south you go. It certainly holds a bit of truth in my experience, the attitudes in Marseille or Rome are much more spicy than in Berlin, Amsterdam etc.
Think 15 milly
Get killed… Louisiana fast
There’s some bad boujee downindatbayou.
That’d be the French influence
What’s up with Liechtenstein? That’s five people and a fortune, how are they competing with the US?
Pretty sure the amount they’re listed as having on the graph is equivalent to one single homicide, due to their low population.
Exactly. Extremely small population and short duration (just one year’s data) means even a small number of murders in a given year will easily bump it up.
Probably true, yes. Death by Hilti!
I didn’t expect my state to be in 2nd place. I guess I should keep staying away from st Louis and KC. And Jeff city. And probably springfield.
It’s not so bad in KC except for the gunfire after a Chiefs game…on Independence Day….NYE….in Westport on the weekends….or driving on the highways….during deer season….Election Day….Easter…MLK Day…National Hot Dog Day…Yom Kippur…Black Friday…and on days when the weather is above 40 degrees. But that’s all.
You’re fine on Tuesday nights when it’s snowing outside. Just watch out for ice on the roads. It’s hard to see.
None of those are homicides
What’s a homicide then? I saw this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Kansas_City_parade_shooting
