Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in Mexico, with 3, 100 people killed in 2010 out of a population of more than a million.
It was set up in response to a number of violent crimes in the city, including a shooting and several stabbings.
As a single woman she has been threatened by neighborhood drug dealers in a city where violent crime rates are on the rise.
Warm weekends were particularly violent in New York City, experts said.
Celeste Koeleveld, a city Law Department attorney, said police go where the crime is, and minorities are overwhelmingly the victims of violent crime in the city.
At least 40 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez since Friday, making it one of the most violent weekends in the city in years, Mexican officials say.
The indictment was the first returned as a result of a new multiagency police unit dedicated to rooting out violent gangs in the city, but authorities vowed that it would not be the last.
The city's violent-crime epidemic shows no signs of waning, with a murder rate far ahead of its nearest American rival.
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When he took office, the city was a violent place, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and he and New York Gov. Hugh Carey did more than anyone else to revive it.
But, amid the positive economic news, many parts of Mexico continued to experience disturbing levels of violent crime, including Mexico City, a place that has in recent years emerged as one of the safest corners of the country.
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But on Friday, they turned violent in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, and three people were killed.
On average, there are fewer than two violent deaths a day in the city.
It has friendly, colorful titles as well as Batman: Arkham City and a pretty violent zombie game.
Around the world, the city is developing a violent reputation, rather like New York's in the 1980s.
In December, 27 people died when an An-72 military plane crashed near the southern city of Shymkent during violent snowstorms.
The February 27 earthquake was violent enough to move the Chilean city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and Santiago about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.
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But first, last week, protest turned violent in New Orleans after the city council unanimously voted to allow the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development - that's HUD - to tear down four large public housing projects.
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Without a comprehensive public transportation system to overcome the greater city's distances, the middle class has become mostly car-bound and wary of the city's reputation for violent crime.
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Paris (CNN) -- Seventeen police officers were injured in violent clashes with young people in the city of Amiens in northern France overnight, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday.
When Angela Merkel came here last week, there were violent scenes and a total lockdown of the city.
One of the city's poorest and most violent regions, the former archbishop often entered on foot to celebrate mass in small chapels and drink mate tea with locals.
In June 2009, Peru was rocked by violent confrontations between normally peaceful indigenous groups in the city of Bagua and local police.
For, despite all the city has to offer, Oakland's violent-crime rates are the highest in California and among the highest in the country.
The city of Detroit has the highest number of violent crimes in the country and the unemployment rate is at 10.2% according to The Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget.
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Yet if, in 1980, someone had predicted that by 2012 New York City would have a crime rate so low that violent crime would have largely disappeared as a subject of conversation, he would have seemed not so much hopeful as crazy.
But with the powerful devastation from the May 20 twister that killed 24 and pummeled the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore still etched in their minds, many Oklahomans instead opted to flee Friday night when a violent tornado developed and headed toward the state's capital city.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg sought to remind New Yorkers of gains made in public safety when he addressed the violent weekend during a news conference Monday on a separate matter at City Hall.
Less than a decade ago, violent criminal activity was at an all-time high for the city. 1991 saw the highest number of homicides in New York City history at 2, 154, according to the New York Police Department.
For example, when Giuliani became New York City's mayor in 1994, he wanted to reduce violent crime.
Police in Panama City, Florida, said last year they had seen two violent incidents linked to use of bath salts.
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