Sentences with phrase «higher homicide»

«More permissive concealed - carry laws linked to higher homicide rates.»

Religiosity is associated with lower I.Q.s, more paranoia, less education, scientific illiteracy, greater crime rates, higher homicide rates, and more STDs.

According to a 2005 study of criminal patterns by Statistics Canada, for example, inflation rates influence the levels of financially motivated crimes such as break - ins and car thefts, while increases in unemployment correlate with higher homicide rates.

The country has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

(Its capital city of Caracas recently overtook San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for having the world's highest homicide rate.)

At East Harlem Church on 116th Street (in a neighborhood with New York's highest homicide rate), they ministered to people who faced a combination of high unemployment and low - paying jobs, which oppressed both body and soul.

Latin America has the world's highest homicide rates, making violent crime the biggest security concern for many of these countries.

This was the highest in the country's history and has positioned Costa Rica among the 50 countries with the highest homicide rates in the world.

Syracuse had a record high homicide rate in 2016 but had lower levels of robberies, burglaries and aggravated assaults from the previous year.

Previous studies have found that women living in harsher conditions — such as communities with high homicide rates and low income — are more inclined to find more masculine men attractive.

Dark States saw Louis travel back to the USA (source of so much material for him over the years) and investigate heroin addiction in small - town America, prostitution in Houston, and Milwaukee's high homicide rates.

After speaking with some people and doing online research about the area, I learned that it had the highest homicide rate in Los Angeles County... no wonder no one wanted to live there!»

Although 8th street has long since gentrified, Southeast DC was infamous for having one of the highest homicide rates in the country.

Not exact matches

Between 2011 and 2016, Acapulco had homicide rates above 100 per 100,000 people five times and had the highest rate in the country five times as well, according to the Justice in Mexico project.

(These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate than other developed nations.)

(Gun deaths are a big reason that America has a much higher overall homicide rate than other developed nations.)

(These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate, which includes non-gun deaths, than other developed nations.)

Indeed, among Canada's 16 peer countries, the U.S. has the second - highest level of income per capita but also the highest rates of poverty and homicides and the lowest life expectancy.

According to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality, a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to face a firearm homicide.

«From 2012 to 2014,» the researchers note, «the annual firearm homicide rate for African American children (3.5 per 100000) was nearly twice as high as the rate for American Indian children (2.2 per 100000), 4 times higher than the rate for Hispanic children (0.8 per 100000), and ∼ 10 times higher than the rate for white children and Asian American children (each 0.4 per 100000).»

It gets high scores for its clean air (an indicator in which it tops all metro areas), relatively large proportion of foreign - born residents, and low homicide rate.

It has, by far, the highest incidence of firearm - related homicides and suicides.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

Though El Salvador has the highest accounts of homicide per capita globally, these killings aren't limited to Latin America.

comparative studies on people with religiosity and various social ills has shown higher rates of belief in a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion.

And you are aware that «in general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies» (Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies, 2005)

The news last year that a Kentucky high school football coach was charged with reckless homicide in the heat - related death of 15 - year - old Max Gilpin was not a shock to me.

The report said that the evidence from such «U.S. cross-sectional studies is quite consistent... where there are higher levels of gun prevalence, homicide rates are substantially higher, primarily due to higher firearm homicide rates.»

They will often state this in such a way that someone might think that gun homicides are highest in states with the most guns.

Although our study can not determine causation, we found that in areas where household firearm ownership rates were higher, a disproportionately large number of people died from homicide.

The corrollary, of course, is that our fairly high non-homicide violent crime rate would fall, with a concomittent rise in homicides.

Jauro and Sanni were charged before Hon. Justice Josiah Majebi of the Okene division of the High Court of Justice on four counts of criminal conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and culpable homicide, all of which contravene sections of the Penal Code.

Erie County Domestic Violence High Risk Team Coordinator Ahlea Howard says she believes that law contributed to a 44 - month period during which the West Coast city had no domestic violence homicides.

Syracuse saw the highest number of homicides — 30 — in its history in 2016.

It was one of a series of high - profile homicides of African - Americans at the hands of law enforcement, all of which prompted massive street protests.

The city of Syracuse had a record high number of homicides in 2016.

In 2016, Syracuse saw its highest number of homicides on record after 31 people were killed, and vacancies at the Syracuse Police Department has been a hot - button issue throughout the mayoral race.

CIVIC CENTER — There were more than 2,800 fewer major crimes this year compared with the same period of time last year, but homicides and reported rapes were still higher, the NYPD announced Monday.

We have very high rates of gun ownership in the North Country, and very low rates of homicide.

Near the end of Zimring's article, he mentions that even New York City's much reduced homicide rate is far higher than that of most major European cities and Tokyo.

The newly resistant strains have been implicated in some 90,000 potentially fatal infections a year in the United States, higher than the number of automobile and homicide deaths combined.

The highest rates of law enforcement homicide occurred in states in the southeastern United States.

Easier access to concealed firearms is associated with significantly higher rates of handgun - related homicide, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher.

In nearly 1,600 counties across the country, elected or appointed coroners who may have no qualifications beyond a high - school degree have the final say on whether fatalities are homicides, suicides, accidents or the result of natural or undetermined causes.

«Since empirical data suggest that most victims of homicide know their assailants, the higher risk for women strongly indicates domestic violence.»

In contrast, there was a higher risk of teen homicides near intersections with stop signs, a possible marker of a less - trafficked area.

Results showed that 23 percent of cases where protective orders were filed indicated a risk of firearm use, and in 39 percent of cases, victims reported at least one factor linked to a higher risk of homicide.

But despite the death penalty in some American states, the homicide rate in the USA is five times higher than in Western Europe.

«The high rates may stem from the fact that these remains were part of forensic cases — there were often related to cases of homicide or neglect.

More than 11,000 people in the United States are killed each year as a result of gun homicides, and the firearm homicide rate in the U.S. is seven times higher than in the average high - income country.