Will the olympics be a disaster?

[DonFerrari]

Rogerioandrade said:

DonFerrari said:

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. 

 

Yeah, no one is denying that they are a big problem, but not even near what some are trying to make it out to be. And yes both cities are very dangerous (statistically, not necessarily by gross numbers). São Paulo metropolitan area alone hold 10% of the whole country population.