My own children have all lost friends from their homes in south London when the parents, wanting to do the right thing, take them away from the city amid fears of violence and knife crime.
Many still ask whether Rio authorities, who have succeeded in cracking down on much of the city's drug violence, are up to the task of protecting the waves of tourists expected to flood the city during the upcoming double-header of mega-events.
Other changes were promised but did not come to pass: many of the areas hit hardest by the violence have seen little of the city largesse that was pledged to them in the aftermath.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu called it a "tragic day" and appealed for an end to what he called the "relentless drumbeat of violence" on the city's streets.
The mosque was being attended by relatives mourning victims of violence in the city the day before.
As record numbers of Syrian refugees have poured into Turkey in recent days, fleeing attacks from pro-government forces ahead of Tuesday's United Nations-backed cease-fire deadline, the spectre of sectarian tensions also has stoked fears that this border city could see a replay of the violence that left hundreds dead in the region in the aftermath of a 1980 military coup.
Most lived in the slums outside of the city, which have grown during the last decade as people have fled violence in the northern areas of the country.
Bloomberg invoked the toll of gun violence to defend the practice in his last State of the City address.
Her slaying -- the 42nd in the city this year -- also highlighted the problem of gun violence in Chicago.
The city's latest round of violence entered a third day Tuesday.
"Even though crime is going down throughout our city and even though this is a rare event on a property like the National Zoo, the fact of the matter is youth violence in our city is way too high, " said D.
Fighting erupted between the Congo national army and the M23 rebel group near the mineral-trading city of Goma, ending a nearly six-month lull in violence around the city.
The National Criminal Intelligence Service blamed the increasingly sophisticated nature of football hooligans for the organised violence last weekend between fans of Millwall and Cardiff City.
There is no reliable data that we know of documenting how many of New Orleans' murders are drug-related, but the public-policy consensus is that the city's drug markets are a leading cause of the violence.
The city's youth need to get out of the mindset that violence is the only way to solve a dispute, he said.
The data was released just hours after Sao Paulo's security chief, Antonio Ferreira Pinto, resigned amid a wave of violence in the city.
Violence in the city of Homs has sparked calls for the international community to act ahead of a major conference to discuss the worsening situation in Syria.
The launch of the Network was held on November 15, 2006 in Paris, as part of a ceremony during which the City of Derbent was awarded the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence.
"We feel embarrassed that the world is now viewing our city and our community through a lens of violence, " the statement said.
Chicagoans can be proud and hopeful that our president is going to the city to bring attention to this epidemic of violence.
Fresh fighting erupted on Monday between the Democratic Republic of Congo national army and the M23 rebels near the mineral-trading city of Goma, ending a nearly six-month lull in violence around the city.
Acapulco, in the mountainous state of Guerrero on Mexico's Pacific coast, was thought of as a relatively safe city despite rampant violence in the surrounding region.
Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero on Mexico's Pacific coast, is generally thought of as a relatively safe city despite rampant violence in the surrounding region.
Like many Venezuelans, Olivero said wartime-levels of street violence all over the city were his top worry.
But Mayor Mike McGinn said there have been "multiple tragic episodes of gun violence" around the city in recent weeks.
It has been about two years since such a level of violence was seen in the city during the course of a weekend.
The city, at the northern end of the Suez Canal, has seen the worst of the violence over the past week, in clashes sparked by death sentences imposed on 21 local people in connection with the football riots.
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Guadalajarans sometimes offer it up as Exhibit A for the case that the city is a civilized place where life goes on unmarked by the violence that disfigures large parts of Mexico.
The secretary of state, who met residents during her visit, described the recent violence in the city as "intolerable".
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