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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Whoo!! Better than Latvia!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Louisianians be like "Chicago tho amirite"

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Surely not!” And then with a heavy sigh, I remembered Baltimore.

[–] prayer 1 points 14 hours ago

Same thing happened to me 😔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If you can make it here you ca…. Oh someone killed you…

If I can make it here I ca…

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

What's the deal with Louisiana?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

Corruption, poor education, overpowered oil/gas lobby, for-profit prison system that encourages recidivism

And that's just scratching the surface

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

outside of NO, the region is reletively low on education, poverty ridden and low opportunity. its the trio that makes high homicide rate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

reletively low on education

You don't say

[–] sangriaferret 7 points 1 day ago

Oh there's plenty of people killing each other in the city too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hot and humid all the time.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Grandwolf319 3 points 1 day ago

Wasn’t that where true detective season 1 was based in? Says all you need to know.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's some bad boujee downindatbayou.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

That'd be the French influence

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's up with Liechtenstein? That's five people and a fortune, how are they competing with the US?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the amount they're listed as having on the graph is equivalent to one single homicide, due to their low population.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Probably true, yes. Death by Hilti!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Alabama: "We aren't Mississippi!"

Guess they can include a few others too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Hmm. Pennsylvania. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Philly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (10 children)

What's the reason for excluding so many european countries in this graphic?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The UK not being included makes me think that these are only EU member countries? I don't know for sure though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Switzerland is included though. I'm thinking it's just data availability.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

It looks like their source was the Eurostat Data Browser. Maybe these are just the countries it has data for?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (13 children)

so many

Two countries are being left out. Is two a high number to you?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

seems to be some non-eu countries...

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Pretty sure the UK is no longer part of Europe. The greyed out countries aren't part of Europe, so why would they be included?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Whoooo Rheinland-Pfalz! Lesgoooo!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Damn, Latvia

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