claim: "the united states doesn’t have the highest murder rate among developed countries. you look at russia, you look at brazil, those are countries that have 3 to 5 times higher murder rates than what we have here in the united states."
author: john lott
evidence_1: "the united states doesn't have the highest murder rate among developed  countries. you look at russia, you look at brazil, those are countries that have 3  to 5 times higher murder rates than what we have here in the united states.".
evidence_2: sep 12, 2017 ... in 2015, brazil had as many homicides as all of the blue countries combined --  the us, china, all of europe, ... you're probably aware that brazil is a dangerous  place with a high murder rate. ... if you'd like to have a look through these stats for  the full list of countries, you can download the raw data here.
evidence_3: homicide rates in the us have declined dramatically over history, but they still  remain much higher than other industrialized states. below, we can see that in  the ...
evidence_4: sep 20, 2018 ... there were more than 900 murders in acapulco last year. ... with just 8% of the  world's population, latin america accounts for roughly a third of global murders.  ... crime slows development and spurs migration to the u.s. violence costs ....  while murder rates are falling in most of the world, in latin america ...
evidence_5: factcheck has already looked at the statistics on killings by law enforcement  officials. ... in 2008 the offending rate for blacks was seven times higher than for  whites .... so 4-5% commit as many murders as 71% of the countries population.  ...... and if you think you know more about us than we do, than you need to walk  in our ...