Murders by firearm rates are 17.5 times higher than in twenty-two other populous high-income nations combined. The United States is one of the most violent nations in the world. Because of this, suicide rates are very high, and costs are very high. Nearly as many citizens are killed each month, as were killed in the first seven years of the Iraq war. The suicide rate of children between the ages of five and fourteen is eleven times higher than that of twenty-five other countries.
Franklin Township Needs Assessment Elyse Kocylowskyi October 8, 2012 Franklin Township, NJ Franklin Township is the most populated municipality of Somerset County, containing 62,300 people, with a population density of 1,350 persons per square mile (Brandstetter, 2010). Franklin Township, to be hereafter called Franklin, not only has the largest population, it also has the fastest growing – with a rate 2.4 times higher than any other municipality, accounting for 43.9% of the total population growth in Somerset County between 2000 and 2010 (NJSDC, 2011). Money Magazine’s ranking of the ‘one-hundred best places to live’ in the US listed Franklin as the fifth best place to live in 2008, and the twenty-fifth best place to live for
Murder: Baltimore vs. Denver Murder is considered one of the worst crimes in the world today. It happens throughout the world and quite often within the United States. Some cities within the United States have more murders than others and are committed more frequently. Murder rates vary from city to city and state to state. This paper will compare two metropolitan cities, in two different states, that have large populations and compare their murder rates.
INDEX INTRODUCTION THE CLIMATE CULTURE MUSEUMS GEOGRAPHY SPORTS TIPS WHEN SHOPPING INTRODUCTION San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses (abarca) a land area of 46.7 square (plaza) miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,243 people per (por medio de) square mile (6,655/km2). The City of San Francisco is the fourth most populous (populoso) city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2010 estimated population of 808.000. Nowadays, San Francisco
Violent crimes are personal crimes that include forcible rape, murder, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, arson, motor vehicle theft, and larceny-theft. The second category offers information for crimes that are less serious such as vandalism, DUI’s, public drunkenness, gambling, embezzlement, prostitution, and simple assault. Two metropolitan areas that utilize the FBI Uniform Crime Report data are Detroit and Chicago informs the public about the levels and trends of criminal victimization in these areas. Detroit is listed as number six on the most 100 dangerous areas to reside in the United States. (Neighborhood Scout).
I believe having cars in high school is very pointless. For the most part students would only need to drive to school, and then back home, and that’s why schools provide bus transportation. So what’s the need for students to drive to school? “300,000 motor vehicle crashes result in injuries for the age group 15-18 per year”. The amount of lives that can be saved by raising the driving age to 18 would be very large.
Crime has been on the rise in Belize for the past several years, Belize remains a crime ridden country due to the extremely high murder rate per capita. Belize is officially the sixth most dangerous country in the world with an average of just over 39 homicides per 100,000 residents which were reported to the UN agency by the Organization of American States (OAS). Belize has the second highest murder rate in the Caribbean, the third in Central America, and the fifth in the Americas. Belize set a new national record for murders in 2009 and 2010. Gang violence, still largely confined to Belize City, is a significant contributor to the high murder rate.
Since the mid-1970s, the prison population in the nation’s largest state has risen by more than 750%, from about 20,000 to more than 160,000 (Equal Justice Initiative, 2010). California’s prison system is among one of the worst in the system and part of it is due to their adaptation of their “Three Strikes” laws. The laws are harsh and the criminals, especially the ones already having two strikes don’t seem to care about the seriousness of committing crimes. California’s prisons, 33 total, are operating at almost twice their design capacity. Overcrowding is a very serious issue that worries the state officials such as Governor Schwarzenegger.
And for that moment I wished it was me on that bike because I was late for work. The way gasoline prices are going up all over the world, biking to work instead of driving will be the best way to offset the rising cost of gas, and also to avoid getting stuck in traffic. According to Michael Bluejay, an award winning writer of “The seven- best on the web! “Automobiles are the second largest source of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution in the U.S. They create nearly 1.5 billion tons of CO2 each year”.
Air over Iran's capital is among the most polluted in the world, health experts say many Iranians suffer serious health problems as a result. Most of the pollution comes from vehicles on the congested roads of the rapidly growing metropolis of more than 12 million people, and the level of pollutants far exceeds World Health Organization standards. Each year, the 1.4 million vehicles in the city pump an estimated 5 million tons of CO2 into the air, according to the Tehran mayor's office. Tehran has a similar geographical position to Los Angeles and Mexico City – two other cities that experience heavy air pollution. Tehran has been listed as the top-ten air-polluted cities in the world in World Health Organization Report (Davidson, 2013).