"Most Dangerous Cities"

by Paul , Thursday, November 28, 2013, 17:16 (3956 days ago)

One comes across interesting articles at times. A lot of folks perceive Colombia to be horribly dangerous, mostly due to the movies and forgetting that the country has moved forward since the days of Escobar.

Well, according to this article, Pereira is the 35th most dangerous city in the world according to the murder rate. However, they did the study with old population figures and ranked Pereira at 46.14/100,000 - but their figures were off. Pereira had a population of 481,129 in 2010, NOT 383,623 like the article claims. It makes one wonder what other errors they committed in their research. Also, it would be interesting to know what percentage of the murders are due to the illicit drug trade. Here in Pereira the percentage is quite high. For the record, two US cities are more dangerous than Pereira according to this article.

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-2012-10?op=1

When an article gets something as simple as the population of a city wrong it really does make me wonder about the reliability of the rest of the article. This one popped out at me since the population figures shown are WAY low, at least 15 years out of date - something that was obvious since we live and work here and are familiar to a certain degree with the population increase the city has been undergoing.