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.
If so, that would be in line with the usual pattern of violence in the city.
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.
The Jordanian arch-terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said to be responsible for many of the most gruesome acts of violence in Fallujah and elsewhere, may have fled the city before the big American assault.
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 group is blamed for a resurgence of sectarian violence including a recent spate of killings in the south-western city of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.
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 government has established a strong police and army presence within the city, but the violence there and in other more rural parts of the state has continued.
The violence in the city of Khosous , north of Cairo, broke out after Coptic Christians drew crosses on the walls of a Muslim school, angering members of the Muslim community, said spokesman Ahmed Osman.
CNN: Official: 5 killed as Muslims, Christians clash in Egypt
The coastal city has seen repeated outbreaks of violence since January, when death sentences were handed down to 39 people arrested after a riot at its football stadium last year which left more than 70 people dead.
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.
If that was once true, it's hardly the case now in the era of steroids and strikes and lockouts and violence, as was sadly underscored when Jovan Belcher of the Kansas City Chiefs fatally shot his girlfriend and himself, and Bob Costas was skewered for talking about the NFL's gun culture.
"We feel embarrassed that the world is now viewing our city and our community through a lens of violence, " the statement said.
That population down there is one of the most abused in the city because they're subject to so many acts of violence and discrimination.
The reported violence in the southern city of Hama occurred two days after a visit to the city by U.N. observers.
Chicagoans can be proud and hopeful that our president is going to the city to bring attention to this epidemic of violence.
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