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yellowwood Donating Member (550 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 05:44 AM
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Rio de Janeiro--New Yorker Article--Gangland
October 5, 2009 articlein "The New Yorker"

"Rio is the top-ranked city in the world for “violent international deaths,” with just under five thousand murders last year, at least half of which were drug-gang related."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/05/091005fa_fact_anderson
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 05:52 AM
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1. Chicago ,has little gang lang history of their own.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 08:00 AM
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2. Most cites do - however I think the article points out how bad it is in RIO in comparison
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 08:44 AM
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3. It didn't mention it in the excerpt ,but I imagine many comparisons were made,
How does Chicago rate for crime now?
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