Sentences with phrase «highest homicide rates»

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

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.

Critics also point out that the victims in Kellermann's study may have gotten guns because they felt themselves to be threatened in some way, which means they might have suffered higher homicide rates even if they hadn't bothered to arm themselves.

«Lochdubh has a ridiculously high homicide rate for a tiny village, but it provides readers with a great deal of atmospheric fun.»

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.

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.)

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

The nations with the highest homicide rates tend to be more religious; those with the greatest levels of gender equality are the least religious.

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.

A few years ago, amid escalating gang violence in El Salvador — which now has one of the highest homicide rates of any nation in the world — Jose took advantage of the Obama Administration's Central American Minors program.

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

There is also a consensus that higher homicide rates have everything to do with the preponderance of guns — an obvious inference when considering, say, crime statistics of London and New York.

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!»

While the city may be ubiquitous with high homicide rates, the reality is much different.

El Salvador is notorious for its gang violence and high homicide rate, but a grassroots movement is trying to convince international tourists to visit — and it's working.

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