Will the olympics be a disaster?

[Rogerioandrade]

DonFerrari said:

Rogerioandrade said:

I don´t think so. In fact, Brazil number of murders could potentially be higher than what we´ve seen. Many crimes happen in isolated regions in this country (like mainland North, North-East, Central-West regions), in farms, mines and smaller cities, that sometimes are not even reported to the police. 

It´s just like modern slavery numbers. Reports counts about 1000 people freed from slavery in the country last year, but estimates vary between 25 - 40 thousand people still living in those conditions in the country. It´s not hard to imagine that, considering that cases were found even in our biggest cities.

A lot of numbers about our social conditions are dubious...unfortunately

And a lot of those estimatives are asspull unfortunately as well, just like the paygap and other "correlationary studies".

And considering that 90% of brazil population lives in the big centers, the numbers on small cities wouldn't impact the numbers that much for homicide.

Not that much..... about 35 % live in state capital and 50% in the big centers / metro areas (around 100 million people). The rest lives in cities under 350.000 people. I don´t think they represent a  fraction that shouldn´t impact. Some of those cities, like Campina Grande, Vitória da Conquista, are even among the 50 most dangerous cities in the world !

Oh well, I don´t want to get into arguments here, but there´s no way to deny that street crime is Brazil is a huge problem and that our average rate of murders (or thefts, or whatever) don´t compare to most developed countries, even if there are a few spots of crime here and there in some of them.