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Half a million Brazilians murdered between 1998 and 2008
Brazil is the sixth most murderous country in a list of 100 nations around the world, according to a new study sponsored by the government and released Thursday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBloody hell, what are they doing [eating them ?? ]
Feb 25th, 2011 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's a rough town !
Feb 25th, 2011 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I find this hard to believe...500,000 people? 50,000 people a year..
Feb 25th, 2011 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 045.454,55 per year from 1998 to 2008.
Feb 25th, 2011 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's awful high, but you can reduce by giving the youth better and more opportunities, so that they can improve their lives them self.
“The numbers show that when guns are given up, the murder index drops,”
Of course, but this political nonsense talk, I remember well when Brazilians voted somewhere in 2003 or 2004 against taking the guns away. Message was clear: Do not touch my gun(s), Do not try to take away from me, I have the right to protect myself, but you the government must solve the crime problems by doing your job.
Perhaps death penalty will reduce crime?
*note, Brazil has an indirect death penalty, by having over populated jails where criminals get frustrated for power or whatever other reason, and kill each other. Is that efficient or just damn evil?
Yes, life is very cheap here, and killings are just the much smaller part of a nation-wide culture of crime - which the population seem to live with without stigmatizing or getting over-upset.
Feb 26th, 2011 - 07:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0When your car is taken from underneath you with its contents (sometimes the occupants, if there is ransome potential) - usually at gun-point, the common culture is to abandon the car intact rather than to burn it out as they do in England. This means the car (and the occupants) survive intact but at a serious cost.
Gang-on-gang and police-on-gang is the most reported, but common criminality is all-pervading - unsurprising when political killings, high-level institutionalised corruption and woeful legal process remain part of modern Brasil.
Brasil is nowhere near a firt-world country in its social and governmental structures, but the flip-side of being second/third world has some very good features - it is not all bad.
l once was very friendly with a Brazilian ex-copper. The stories that he told me would make your hair stand on end. l believe him.
Feb 26th, 2011 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh Geotward, you're acting as if the US is a first world country. Get real it isn't. Numbers of murders are cooked, police is in major cities are as corrupted like in latin american cities and talking about gang bang, California (I used to live in San Diego-CA) is one of the gang bang capitals second only to L.A. Pay attention to your own country Geo.
Feb 27th, 2011 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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