Hello Ottawa Leafs fan,

You are totally wrong about murder rates. Perhaps that results from the wanted direction of propaganda available to you in Canadian newspapers?

The nation of Jamaica in recent years has had an average of about 1,200 murders a year. In comparison Chicago, with roughly the same population as Jamaica, has had an average of about 700 murders a year in recent years.

Sorry, Ottawa Leafs fan, but 1,200 is bigger than 700.

In any event, more pertinent is to compare murder rates city to city, not country to city. The city of Kingston Jamaica has a murder rate of about 45 per hundred thousand, whereas Chicago has a murder rate of about 28 per hundred thousand.

Jamaica is one of the most murderous countries on the planet, nationally about 35 per hundred thousand killed each year (the USA's number is about 4, yes, 4, per hundred thousand).