What’s up with New Hampshire that it’s on par with the EU countries?
Authright (PCM) has an answer but I won’t repeat it here
Why is Mississipi not first on this list too? Louisiana seems off the charts. Any explanation for that?
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.
Just want to point out the graph maxes out at 12.5 out of 100,000. That’s 0.01% of 100000. With Louisiana’s population of 4.57million, it comes out to 571 people in 2020. Feels pretty low.
Missouri is actually #1 if you count all the copicides.
Ah yes, the mostly aptly named state, misery.
Latvia is the Louisiana of Europe
Alternatively, Louisiana is the Latvia of the United States. But with fewer social programs.
Not to brag but at least Illinois isn’t the worst. That, as usual, goes to the Worst State in the Union in over 90% of all categories, Louisiana.
Lousy Ana
Imagine how bad it would be if Americans didn’t have guns to defend themselves.
And if those guns didn’t have guns of their own.
UK isn’t included for some reason, but in 2020 it was 1.00.
I eanted to say “Duh brexit” but as switzerland is also included and some other non-eu states…
Whoo!! Better than Latvia!
If you can make it here you ca…. Oh someone killed you…
If I can make it here I ca…
Hey he may have died but at least Candlejack didn’t get him. OH NO! Now he’s gonna get m-
“Surely not!” And then with a heavy sigh, I remembered Baltimore.
Same thing happened to me 😔
Louisianians be like “Chicago tho amirite”
If you take Chicago and New Orleans out of the mix, the two states are actually fairly even.
What’s the deal with Louisiana?
Corruption, poor education, overpowered oil/gas lobby, for-profit prison system that encourages recidivism
And that’s just scratching the surface
outside of NO, the region is reletively low on education, poverty ridden and low opportunity. its the trio that makes high homicide rate.
reletively low on education
You don’t say
Oh there’s plenty of people killing each other in the city too.
Wasn’t that where true detective season 1 was based in? Says all you need to know.
Hot and humid all the time.
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.
Think 15 milly
Get killed… Louisiana fast
There’s some bad boujee downindatbayou.
