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#ChicagoIguala ( twitter ) refers to the trade corridor connecting two battlefields in the narcotics wars - one in Mexico. One in Chicago. A unique attribute of markets along the corridor is the frequency of violence, shooting, and unsolved murder. From that perspective, #ChicagoIguala is shorthand for a multi-year, transcontinental murder mystery involving 100s of thousands of Americans. It's also a symbol for state complicity and corruption in extrajudicial killing, kidnapping and disappearances. It's code for "a blackout in our history". Document storage at Juarez, MX PD. As see in Narcocultura . A road map or way finding tool (of sorts) to American security. I hypothesize that insecurity and security are decided in these towns . These are selected by two different methodologies right now: US comes from FBI Table 6 2014 and is sorted for homicides per capita per square mile - a density of homicide metric ( source ) pan American data comes from Seguridad ...

Together, these 5 cities on the Great Lakes summed 896 homicides in 2014 per FBI. The red marker is Gary, Indiana: Lake County Sheriff John Buncich attributed the violence to gangs fighting over drug customers, some coming in from out of town, mostly to buy marijuana. He said gangs sometimes spin off and form smaller factions, battling within just a few blocks and complicating police work. "The weaponry they are using is ridiculous," Buncich said. "The amount of firepower is ridiculous." Read the whole thing . Gary guns also show up at 19% of Chicago murder scenes .  Presumably, Chicago traders acquire Gary, Indiana guns for Sinaloa drugs and/or proceeds from the same? original data source: FBI Table 6 2014

This is a map of 28 cities within the United States . (28 is an arbitrary number.) It plots homicide per capita per square mile. These cities have the most homicide per person per square mile. What does that even mean? I'm not sure - and if anyone knows of a proper name for this metric, please let me know. FWIW I consider it the "density" of homicide - where density is both social density (ie "per capita") and geographic density (ie "per square mile"). I think those attributes of homicide express important social attributes of violence, like proximity and intensity. In these 28 cases, where the social fabric in real physical space is most "war-torn" . Where killing hits "closest to home". Where there are witnesses and bystanders to murder. Clicking on the city will show the underlying calculations and the rank of the city. I will try to clean those up - this is a work in progress. Feedback and questions are welcome. ...

Latest homicide map is linked here . Overall goal: explain why the Americas have such low rates of successfully prosecuted murder compared to EU and APAC . And why - as murder rates declining - are solved murder rates declining in the United States? For a quick summary of the state of homicide within the United States: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/06/homicide-clearance-rates-on-decline.html http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2013/01/rates-of-unsolved-murder-by-state.html To start: where are the murders? Latest homicide map is linked here . Next, I want to map stories to these cities. Later, add more data sources (eg, unsolved murder data). MAP STORY https://github.com/Corollarium/geograpy2 STORY about Operation Anvil in Honduras: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/06/a-mission-gone-wrong http://www.cepr.net/blogs/the-americas-blog/blaming-the-victims-us-ambassador-to-honduras-doubles-down-regarding-ahuas-shootings http://www.nytimes.co...

As measured by murder rate, these are the most violent cities in the world, excluding "war zones". Please click here for an interactive version. Please click here to read about the source data. Please click here Data source (accessed November 2015) : http://www.seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/biblioteca/download/6-prensa/199-the-50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2014 Country Level Pivot: Honduras 0.12% Venezuela 0.07% El Salvador 0.06% Brazil 0.05% South Africa 0.04% Guatemala 0.04% United States 0.04% Mexico 0.04% Jamaica 0.04% Colombia 0.04% Grand Total 0.05% source: http://www.seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/biblioteca/download/6-prensa/199-the-50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2014 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NFPSKTvt-LXA0Lor21H1qYeNS9EqUTgD4XxBlFMzk8s/pubhtml?gid=733626848&single=true