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Belize Murder Rate Surpasses Civil War Benchmark, Every Year
posted (February 26, 2019)
Violence is the most confounding social problem of our time - and you see it every night on the news, the seemingly endless procession of violent crime. That's why all this week, we will be featuring short excerpts of Dr. Herbert Gayle's presentation from last week Friday on the failure of suppression as a strategy to reducing crime.

Tonight, he discusses the civil war benchmark for crime - that when the murder rate exceeds 30 per hundred thousand. As it does every year in Belize - that benchmark has been exceeded:

We'll have more form the Gayle presentation tomorrow and you can see the whole lecture this coming weekend on Channel 7.

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