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InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up

InSight Crime

1 February 2022

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Jamaica: 49.4 per 100,000

For the second year in a row, the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica had the highest murder rate in the region.

The Constabulary Force recorded 1,463 killings in 2021, giving the country a homicide rate that reached nearly 50 per 100,000 people. Jamaicans were shaken last year by brutal slayings and spiraling violence amid a "third wave" of COVID-19.

Homicides were up by 10 percent in late November, when Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that he was imposing a state of emergency in seven of the island's deadliest police districts. The districts chosen – four in the capital of Kingston and three in the west of the country – had homicide rates as high as 190 per 100,000 residents.

(…) criminal gangs accounted for nearly three quarters of the country's homicides in 2021.

ID: N857

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