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Murder City USA: St Louis's Record Breaking Murder Rate

2021/1/4
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Danny Gold: 本期节目探讨了美国圣路易斯连续七年凶杀率居高不下的原因。圣路易斯的凶杀率远高于其他美国城市，甚至超过了世界上一些臭名昭著的暴力城市。该市的问题根源在于美国社会存在的诸多问题，例如阿片类药物泛滥、枪支泛滥、糟糕的住房政策、种族歧视的遗产、就业机会减少、以及警民关系紧张等。圣路易斯北部地区的情况尤其糟糕，该地区长期以来一直被种族隔离和忽视，缺乏资源和机会，导致贫困、毒品和帮派活动猖獗。媒体对圣路易斯问题的关注不足，这使得该市的问题长期得不到解决。 Danny Gold还采访了一些圣路易斯街头年轻人的观点，他们讲述了毒品、枪支、社交媒体炫耀文化对暴力犯罪的影响。他们指出，现在的暴力犯罪并非由大型帮派主导，而是由更小的、更分散的团伙进行，这导致了暴力事件的增加。此外，圣路易斯居民之间互相认识，这使得暴力事件更容易发生。社区中普遍存在创伤后应激障碍（PTSD），这加剧了暴力循环。 Sean Williams: Sean Williams作为一名英国人，对圣路易斯的情况感到震惊，并对美国媒体对该问题的忽视表示失望。他认为媒体在报道圣路易斯等城市时，往往忽视了暴力事件中的年轻人，而这些年轻人才是暴力事件的核心。此外，媒体对圣路易斯等城市的报道存在问题，因为记者往往缺乏对当地社区和居民的了解，导致报道缺乏深度和全面性。

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The podcast introduces St. Louis as the murder capital of the U.S., highlighting its record-breaking murder rate and the factors contributing to its deadly reputation.

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( note: we weren't able to record in the studio so audio is off a bit) The murder capital of the United States isn't Chicago, Baltimore or Detroit - it's St. Louis, Missouri, which for each of the last SEVEN years in a row had has the highest murder rate in the United States. The city just finished 2020 with a record breaking murder rate of 87 per 100,000 people, making it the deadliest city in the world not in Mexico or Brazil. A city of only 300,000 people, it had twice as many murders as London, population 9 million. This is the story of how St Louis became the murder capital of America; guns, gangs, drugs, poor policing, population loss, disappearing industry, concentrated poverty, and a history of systemically racist policies.

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