Bahamas has 5x murder rate of Texas??

Richie · 13 Nov 2010 at 08:31

Pretty sure Scotland (Glasgow specifically) is still murder capital of Europe (someone correct me if I am wrong) which is pretty dire TBH

godinman · 13 Nov 2010 at 08:32

I have compressed air and I'm not afraid to use it!

Cosimo · 13 Nov 2010 at 09:27

Tefal said:
I wasn't aware you needed a gun to murder people.

You learn something new every day.

semi-pro waster · 13 Nov 2010 at 10:09

Richie said:
Pretty sure Scotland (Glasgow specifically) is still murder capital of Europe (someone correct me if I am wrong) which is pretty dire TBH

I believe that it was technically only Western Europe, some of the Baltic states might have been/still be higher. You're right though, it is pretty dire and it's often alcohol/drug related with from memory most of it done with knives.

AgentZ · 13 Nov 2010 at 11:14

These rates are calculated as per 100,000 population. When looking at rare events such as this, places with small populations (such as US virgin islands: pop 108,000) will be over represented in the stats as compared to Texas (pop approx 24 million). The total numbers for 2009 would be USVI ~ 52, Texas ~ 1000.

Richie · 13 Nov 2010 at 11:21

AgentZ said:
These rates are calculated as per 100,000 population. When looking at rare events such as this, places with small populations (such as US virgin islands: pop 108,000) will be over represented in the stats as compared to Texas (pop approx 24 million). The total numbers for 2009 would be USVI ~ 52, Texas ~ 1000.

Yes, granted, but it still means you have a higher chance of being killed in those places than places with a lower/100,000 population....