Increased Homicide Rates

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Do you think the homicide rate have increased ?
Homicide is one of the most destructive crimes worldwide. Around the globe, more than 40% of homicides are committed with firearms. There are assorted groups of risk factors for example relationship, family, and personal problems. According to statistics, Honduras has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Race and jurisdiction are one of the main causes to why homicides are highly common. According to FBI Expanded Homicide Data, there were 742 justifiable murders in the year of 2013. Furthermore, the FBI data also states that 461 felons were justifiably killed. Homicide is a threat that has become a large conflict to our society, affecting children, teenagers and families. There
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Homicides with firearms have had a huge impact on males.An amerocan lawyer from Los Angeles Californina “The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide” Larry Elder. Regardless, in female rates there have been 2.3 also during the last two years. In 2014, the homicide rate for black male teens was 46 per 100,000 people, which is over 20 times higher than the rate for white males.“Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States if people look in a different perspective, they have a higher tendency of dying and having their lives taken away (Ryan Coogler).”. Although, for women, black and hispanic had the highest homicide rates in 2014.Rather than for teens the males have had the higher rates for homicides than women during their teen …show more content…
As a result of the city’s 344 homicides with African Americans which were associated with firearms and gun violence.In addition to the number of homicides that increased significantly after the month of April.Chicago had the most homicides of all U.S. cities in 2015.The Baltimore Sun has had a report that states that Baltimore has closed no more 30% of its homicide cases from 2015.through the year 2015 there has been a 138% of homicides and 215 during this year between these two years there has been a change in 56%. As a result of this there have been 19.4% of homicides of African Americans in the U.S. per 100,000 population. Steven Pinker a scientist in Harvard University “If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.”Steven

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