“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”
Imagine how bad it would be if Americans didn’t have guns to defend themselves.
Louisianians be like “Chicago tho amirite”
There’s some bad boujee downindatbayou.
What’s the deal with Louisiana?
outside of NO, the region is reletively low on education, poverty ridden and low opportunity. its the trio that makes high homicide rate.
Oh there’s plenty of people killing each other in the city too.
reletively low on education
You don’t say
Corruption, poor education, overpowered oil/gas lobby, for-profit prison system that encourages recidivism
And that’s just scratching the surface
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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.
Wasn’t that where true detective season 1 was based in? Says all you need to know.
Get killed… Louisiana fast
Think 15 milly
Why do these European charts omit the UK?
We left the EU, not the bloody continent.
The data is provided by Eurostat. An EU organisation, they are not going to fund numbers for a country not in the EU anymore (some other countries might still join for various reasons.)
If they hold that stance, the graph should not use ‘Europe’ when they essentially mean ‘EU member nations’, especially if they omit the UK for the reasons you state as the UK is a part of Europe.
Edit: not sure how difficult this is to understand. Europe is a continent, which includes the UK. The chart says Europe, not EU, whilst omitting a country within Europe.
In this case it is the graph makers laziness to not find extra stats on the UK. On the other part I believe the UK has the choice to join again, especially on side project as Eurostat. If a European country doesn’t want to join on European initiatives then I’m bit sure if we should treat them specially. The choice is theirs and it was clearly made.
I feel for you. I understand what you’re saying. Unfortunately I only have one up vote to counter everyone else.
Switzerland and Norway are not part of the EU either.
We are on there but we had no killings. Just tragic accidents for the greater good.
UK isn’t included for some reason, but in 2020 it was 1.00.
I wanted to say “Duh brexit” but as switzerland is also included and some other non-eu states…
Also the title doesn’t say EU, it says Europe.
Reading should be a thing, right?
What’s the reason for excluding so many european countries in this graphic?
The UK not being included makes me think that these are only EU member countries? I don’t know for sure though.
Switzerland is included though. I’m thinking it’s just data availability.
It literally says Eurostat in the bottom right
Eurostat (European Statistical Office; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission (…). Eurostat’s main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods across its member states and candidates for accession as well as EFTA countries.
It looks like their source was the Eurostat Data Browser. Maybe these are just the countries it has data for?
As with all EU policy, the purpose is to make the USA look bad. This is the only reason Russia is not even in the EFTA or the EU.
I have insider information that powers are play are trying to engineer a way to kick out Latvia to make the statistics more embarrassing to you.
PS: UK 1.48, Switserland Not a country, Russia 6.8, Belarus 2.32, Ukraine 3.84 pre-war, Moldavia 2.27 USA 6.38
I don’t think adding Russia will make the difference you think it will, since it’s barely more violent than the US.
The UK would be 1.00 on this chart - source
I used wikipedia’s data that is sourced from UNODC and is apparently for 2021. For states the size of the UK it doesn’t really matter, fluctuations are small. Any given year the US will have ~6 times the homicide rate of the UK.
so many
Two countries are being left out. Is two a high number to you?
UK, Switserland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia.
Cyprus is included for some reason.
Which two of the above were you referring to?
The numbers for Russia and Ukraine would be quite bad at the moment, me thinks.
Isn’t the aim of the game to make US look bad?
The US does look bad. There is no make involved. The US homocide / gun deaths numbers are en par to some failed states or those with civil or actual war.
Your argument would be illustrated if this post included europe, as the title claimed it would.
Ok, so the US is only much worse than the majority of EU countries.
That better?
and Bosnia and Herzegovina
seems to be some non-eu countries…
Yet switserland is colored in
hence SOME
Whenever you see a map with data about most European countries but not the UK, it’s probably Eurostat. After Brexit they stopped sharing their data.
No data available is what I assumed.
Missouri is actually #1 if you count all the copicides.
Ah yes, the mostly aptly named state, misery.
What’s up with New Hampshire that it’s on par with the EU countries?
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Authright (PCM) has an answer but I won’t repeat it here
Why not? Are you some sorta coward? I’ll say it: yeah, fascists think a whiter population leads to reduced crime rates. That’s because fascists are rubes and imbeciles with such a stunted worldview that they’re incapable of considering the effects of any other socio-economic factors such as education, distribution of wealth, etc.
It’s not my view
I should hope not, but skirting around it that way with euphemisms like “PCM authright” is the sort of shitlord behaviour I would’ve expected from someone who does hold that view, so I guess it’s a good thing we cleared that up.
I bring it up because new Hampshire is specifically mentioned by the alt right with racist motives. Thanks for implying I’m a shitlord and a coward though that’s a great way to win over liberals like me.
fascists think a whiter population leads to reduced crime rates
Japan has entered the chat. Actually, lots of non-white nations, particularly in Asia have low homicide rates. OP is about homicides specifically, so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Like I said, white supremacists are fucking morons. News at 11.
Alabama: “We aren’t Mississippi!”
Guess they can include a few others too.
What’s up in the baltic?
The leading cause of homicide in the Baltic countries is alcohol. What is interesting is that the victims are usually family members and friends, because you drink at the same table and when you argue, you get angry and it ends badly. It is rare that a person is killed without a connection to the killer, and if it does happen, it makes the national headlines.
During the multiple occupations of the Baltic countries, alcohol was used to control the population. The tsar used it, Stalin used it and now Putin uses it. Alcohol helps to escape from reality and provides comfort. It will take time to overcome the alcoholic generations, measures are being taken to help solve the problem, but you can’t change a country where for more than a hundred years alcoholism was the norm.
I’d just like to interject and say we cause our own alcoholism, thank you very much. No help from our “friend” in the east needed.
Latvia is the Louisiana of Europe
Alternatively, Louisiana is the Latvia of the United States. But with fewer social programs.
Hmm Mord means murder though, not homicide, that would be Totschlag. Also there is a note in the sidebox that the graphs include attempted murders.
Whoooo Rheinland-Pfalz! Lesgoooo!
The German equivalent to Alabama is nearly as bad as the original ;-)
“Surely not!” And then with a heavy sigh, I remembered Baltimore.
Same thing happened to me 😔
