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Re:Brazil sets new record for homicides by bluedino on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:08PM (#17735981)
>> here were only around 13,000 murders last year in the US

And 5% of those were in Chicago alone.

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Re:Brazil sets new record for homicides by wenc on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:33PM (#17738157)
Not sure why Chicago was brought up, but it is worth noting that it is a huge city with a population that is nearly the size of the entire state of Michigan. Despite popular imagination, in terms of per capita homicide rates, Chicago is actually middle of the pack. [1] Newark has a higher homicide rate.

[1] https://www.thetrace.org/2018/04/highest-murder-rates-us-cit...

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