Bogota murder rate on the rise

[Judi Lynn]

Bogota murder rate on the rise
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 07:40 Kirsten Begg

Bogota's homicide rate was up 5.4% in the first two months of this year, compared to the same period in 2009, according to data released by Colombia's national forensics agency, Medicina Legal.

There were 239 murders in Colombia's capital city between January 1 and February 28 2009, compared with 252 over the same 2010 period.

January 2010 registered a 22.2% increase in homicides compared to the same month in 2009, with 132 murders in January 2010, up from 108 in 2009.

February figures dropped by 8.3%, with 120 in 2010, compared to 131 in 2009.

Eighty-three of January's murders were committed with a firearm, while in February the figure was 68.

Of the total murders, 85 were stabbings, four were strangulations and one was carried out by explosives.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/8710-bogota-homicide-rate-on-the-rise.html

[protocol rv]

1. Caracas' murder rate is worse

I've seen statistics which show Caracas is close to the worst on the continent. We've discussed this previously, but I believe we're the third worst, and Colombia is better than Venezuela nowadays.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/caracas_murder_capital_of_the.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. Oh, really? Based on numbers provided by Uribe's government?

You're probably overlooking the huge numbers of additional COLOMBIAN CITIZENS who have been driven off their own property, out of their own houses by Colombian paras working in tandem with the Colombian military. They have no where to go and they end up fleeing to either Ecuador or Venezuela to be safe.

They constitute the WORLD'S 2ND LARGEST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, 2nd only to Sudan. Idealogical, slimy right-wing-controlled media ALWAYS choose to leave this small detail out of their bogus news coverage.

Swelling urban poor populations with no income, no prospects, would create a crime problem, wouldn't they? Take it up with your beloved racist Colombian feudalists who drive the campesinos off the land into Venezuela, then sell the land to palm plantations or mining interests.

As for the source you're trying to shove down our Democratic throats, we can only laugh ourselves sick:

March 10, 2009
American Thinker, Ready-made Propaganda For The Ditto Head Conservative

Here’s a random sample of headlines from a typical right-wing media website,

AmericanThinker.com:

1. Let ‘Em Pay - Worried about the “generational debt” that President Obama is in the process of placing upon this country’s youth?
   
2. Heads Roll in Havana, Baffling ‘Cuba Experts’ – The very week Obama proposed cozying up to Castro by dropping some economic and travel sanctions, the biggest political shake-up in twenty years rattled Cuba’s regime.
   
3. Welcome to Thunderdome – the president’s assault on capitalism is being waged with the organization and intensity of a counter-insurgency.
   
4. US Public Schools Teaching Children Pro-Islamic Propaganda
   
5. Obama’s Political Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
   
6. Obama and the Disunited States
   It’s only bad to want the president to fail if you are a Republican – Many things go down the memory hole when Democrats take office – like how they treated a Republican president at the time he was in office.

http://babbleonbabylon.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/american-thinker-propaganda/

[Bacchus39]

3. yeah, we just had a discussion on this

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/31/Venezuela.murder.capital/

and Venezuela is no longer reporting on violent crime.

I also note the OP that the February crime rate was down in Bogota.