<story><title>Brazil sets new record for homicides</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-devastating-scenario-brazil-sets-new-record-for-homicides-at-63880-deaths/ar-BBLIXQc?OCID=ansmsnnews11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bennicholes</author><text>Where did you live in Brazil? As an American I visit the interior of São Paulo and Belo Horizonte often and have never experienced anything like this, nor does it seem my Brazilian friends live in constant anxiety.</text></item><item><author>goshx</author><text>You never know when you are going to be targeted, so you live in this constant fear. Ask anyone who lives in Brazil what they do if they see two guys in a motorcycle coming their way.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been robbed at gun point; I&amp;#x27;ve woken up with someone inside my bedroom stealing my laptop; I&amp;#x27;ve been followed home; The bus from the public transport system I used to take 
was stopped by criminals and set on fire; and so on.&lt;p&gt;It used to affect only the life of those living in the metropolitan areas, but now it is spreading.&lt;p&gt;The main reason why I moved to the US was because I was living in such a state that I was always tense. When I was robbed at gun point I almost got shot because the guy thought I was too calm and suspected I was a cop.&lt;p&gt;Living in the US I realized how much that was affecting my daily life and how life without worrying feels like.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s how it affects your life.</text></item><item><author>MrEfficiency</author><text>Whats this like for civilians that are not involved?&lt;p&gt;I hear about the crime in my country, but it seems unreal to me because in my area you&amp;#x27;d never know there were dozens of murders last weekend.&lt;p&gt;Does this affect your life?</text></item><item><author>rvr_</author><text>Brazilian here. Our criminality numbers are _probably_ higher than the official numbers. The country is huge and diverse, but even the most pacific states and cities are in a bad shape if compared to almost any other country.
More than 70% of the deaths are related to gang conflicts.&lt;p&gt;Drugs are not the only problem. We also have a lot of cargo&amp;#x2F;truck stealing, street-level robbery, an enormous black market of stolen mobile phones, etc.&lt;p&gt;We have some affluent startup hubs, there are innovation in e-commerce, payments, banking, HR and many more, but our tech elite is complete out-of-sync with our major problem: violence. Maybe a fresh HN discussion can put some light on the issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hugocbp</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m from Belo Horizonte now living in Canada... Mostly moved because couldn&amp;#x27;t take the anxiety of being in fear every single time I had to leave home.&lt;p&gt;Most people just play the numbers game. I, for example, have been robbed at gunpoint, with a knife, with 4 teenagers threatening to beat me up when I was 14 and I was even &amp;quot;lightning kidnapped&amp;quot; (I don&amp;#x27;t even know the term in English, but I was put in a car and bandits kept me for 8 hours and drove me around waiting for the banking hours to reset the withdraw money from ATM to take more form my account).&lt;p&gt;A lot of my friends, though, have never been robbed at all.&lt;p&gt;In general, we all know we are subject to that, but in the end it is mostly just bad or good luck. Just being in the wrong place in the wrong time.&lt;p&gt;From all the people I know, those that have never been through this just live life mostly normally. But once you&amp;#x27;ve suffered that at least once, you can never really fully rest again.&lt;p&gt;The homicides problem on that news is actually not that relevant in that context because, as others have said, it is really concentrated in poor neighborhoods or slums, where the State basically is nonexistent.&lt;p&gt;For example, in a lot of violent slums, criminals take and sell access to pirated cable TV, energy and water, to the point where the official employees can be made to fix stuff when they go there to try and cut signals. That is how absent the state is in those places.&lt;p&gt;But when you see homicides numbers like that go up, probably the random crimes to the whole population is going up as well.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brazil sets new record for homicides</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-devastating-scenario-brazil-sets-new-record-for-homicides-at-63880-deaths/ar-BBLIXQc?OCID=ansmsnnews11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bennicholes</author><text>Where did you live in Brazil? As an American I visit the interior of São Paulo and Belo Horizonte often and have never experienced anything like this, nor does it seem my Brazilian friends live in constant anxiety.</text></item><item><author>goshx</author><text>You never know when you are going to be targeted, so you live in this constant fear. Ask anyone who lives in Brazil what they do if they see two guys in a motorcycle coming their way.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been robbed at gun point; I&amp;#x27;ve woken up with someone inside my bedroom stealing my laptop; I&amp;#x27;ve been followed home; The bus from the public transport system I used to take 
was stopped by criminals and set on fire; and so on.&lt;p&gt;It used to affect only the life of those living in the metropolitan areas, but now it is spreading.&lt;p&gt;The main reason why I moved to the US was because I was living in such a state that I was always tense. When I was robbed at gun point I almost got shot because the guy thought I was too calm and suspected I was a cop.&lt;p&gt;Living in the US I realized how much that was affecting my daily life and how life without worrying feels like.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s how it affects your life.</text></item><item><author>MrEfficiency</author><text>Whats this like for civilians that are not involved?&lt;p&gt;I hear about the crime in my country, but it seems unreal to me because in my area you&amp;#x27;d never know there were dozens of murders last weekend.&lt;p&gt;Does this affect your life?</text></item><item><author>rvr_</author><text>Brazilian here. Our criminality numbers are _probably_ higher than the official numbers. The country is huge and diverse, but even the most pacific states and cities are in a bad shape if compared to almost any other country.
More than 70% of the deaths are related to gang conflicts.&lt;p&gt;Drugs are not the only problem. We also have a lot of cargo&amp;#x2F;truck stealing, street-level robbery, an enormous black market of stolen mobile phones, etc.&lt;p&gt;We have some affluent startup hubs, there are innovation in e-commerce, payments, banking, HR and many more, but our tech elite is complete out-of-sync with our major problem: violence. Maybe a fresh HN discussion can put some light on the issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrisoli</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m from Belo Horizonte and the constant anxiety is real, of course it&amp;#x27;s not a problem every moment but shows up in every situation.&lt;p&gt;Waiting for the bus every day of the week for 15-30min, you&amp;#x27;re very exposed, and should be careful with your phone out, and some people learn your commute time, follow you, it&amp;#x27;s rare, but if you&amp;#x27;re not paying attention, it can happen.&lt;p&gt;I personally used to(don&amp;#x27;t live there anymore) double check every corner I step into to make sure there&amp;#x27;s nothing suspicious.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s anecdotal of course but I&amp;#x27;ve had three of my friends having their cellphone stolen in the same day, and at least one per day for a two week span.&lt;p&gt;My parents moved into a gated community which is supposed to be safer, only to have their house robbed their first month there, robbers get in facilitated by the staff.&lt;p&gt;I could go on with anecdotes for a long time, and just for the last year.</text></comment>