With 64.54 murders per 100,000 residents, St. Louis had the highest murder rate of any major American city in 2019. Something like16, 500 people were murdered in the whole U.S., up 11 per cent from 2010. There are about 5 homicides per 100,000 people in the States, 2 per in Canada.
On any given day, though, if you add up all the cable TV and streaming series, so many of which offer crime detective shows, there are many many times more murders, usually of women. The Swedish series I have been watching, "Beck", for example, has at least one murder per episode. The crime usually opens the show and the rest of the hour and a half is devoted to solving it. This is where the characters come forth, the frumpy Beck, the short-fused handsome Gunvald, and various other regulars. I like their stories. Beck has a daughter who is the single mother of his grandson for whom he babysits when the daughter has a conflict.
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