Venezuelan here. I was gonna make the same point.
Imagine how bad Caracas is, given that the population is roughly the same (or a little larger than Chicago's). There are no official numbers for Caracas as the government "chose" not to report. But Chicago has a 15.65 murde rate vs. a +110 in Caracas (per 100 000).
I don't even want to think what's the rate for the equivalent of Engelwood in Caracas :(
Re:Brazil sets new record for homicides
by ghostbrainalpha on Friday August 10, 2018 @02:54PM
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Exactly. The murder rate in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city was in the 50's. It has recently dropped to 6.1 per 100,000 residents and is quite safe.
So the city is in some cases MORE safe than the less urban areas, the main reason for this drop was a drop in gang violence based on the consolidation and dominant victory of a single gang. That gang is the PCC.
In areas where multiple gangs are still fighting for control the violence can be incredible.
It might be more appropriate to compare the most violent neighborhood in Chicago to the most violent neighborhood in a similarly-sized Venezuelan city. Just as you would compare the safest neighborhoods in both cities.