Homicide Rate in Europe (by country) and the USA (by state) in 2020

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

And if those guns didn't have guns of their own.

If you take Chicago and New Orleans out of the mix, the two states are actually fairly even.

That'd be the French influence

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

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

And that's just scratching the surface

Get killed... Louisiana fast

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

Think 15 milly

Must be the Mississipi River. It just gets redder as you go down from Minnesota to Louisiana.

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

Leichtenshire.

Ah yes, the mostly aptly named state, misery.

I wanted to say "Duh brexit" but as switzerland is also included and some other non-eu states...

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

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

so many

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

seems to be some non-eu countries...

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.

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.

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?

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.)

We are on there but we had no killings. Just tragic accidents for the greater good.

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.

Really? wildly waves hands at history

You gotta be extremely ignorant of even basic history to not see why.

Authright (PCM) has an answer but I won't repeat it here

Alternatively, Louisiana is the Latvia of the United States. But with fewer social programs.

A bit surprising seeing us at the top since I rarely feel uncomfortable walking alone during night even through questionable areas. I usually do not even see anyone else so that might be the reason why nothing significant has happened.

Most of those murders probably are from people you know because usually headlines mention something like ″Some guy kills another guy over a bottle of vodka and argument″. Rarely you see in news incidents where murder seems to have happened to random person.

The only recent thing that shook me quite a bit was meeting a guy with large knife. I still do not know if it was just for his own protection and he was some local guard since I was in an industrial area where you would not expect anyone. He was visibly drunk and spoke Russian which I barely know so I did not spend too much time thinking about it and just run the hell away.

It's also better than it was before. In 90s we had a bit of a gangster period. Source.

Same thing happened to me 😔

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 ;-)

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.

Lousy Ana

It's just another part of the wide range of fantastic options for post-natal abortions, from the fourth trimester onward!

No lives matter (except the rich)

Have you been to Louisiana?

I spent a good bit of time growing up there. This does not surprise me.

Also, New Orleans was like, murder capital of the world per capita at one point in time.

But generally, the reasons are the obvious ones: Extreme bigotry, racism, and most importantly, some of the worst poverty in the world for any first world country is there. Poverty creates violence. It's just how humans/the world work. When you don't have enough/can't get a job through legal means to survive, you turn to crime.

Denmark, with a population of 5.8 million in 2020, had 42 (0.72 per 100000). 571 seems absolutely astronomical.

The colour chart in the top right maxes at 12.5. Not the graph. Louisiana passes the 15 mark by a little bit. So that makes it around 700 people up from 571.

Hey he may have died but at least Candlejack didn't get him. OH NO! Now he's gonna get m-

Europe sits further north than the US does.

The homicide rate seems to go down as you move north.

I am willing to bet if you take the most populous cities in each state they'd fall in a similar organization.

So we can reasonably conclude that hot summers make you want to murder a motherfucker.

Obviously. Nothing else could cause this. Nothing.

Clearly thoughts and prayers aren't helping. So it must be the weather.