Murder has for too long been a part of city life.

长久以来，谋杀已成为城市生活的一部分。

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Police in Mexico say a suspected cartel leader they arrested on Friday has confessed to ordering the murder of 1, 500 people in the northern city of Juarez.

墨西哥警方称，他们上周五逮捕的一名卡特尔头目嫌疑人已经供认下令在北部城市华雷斯谋杀1,500人。

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But New York City still continued to have far higher murder rates than London.

但是纽约对伦敦的谋杀率比率基本维持不变。

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This place that had been full of crime and murder became the most orderly in the city.

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The request for the halt to returning prisoners through Juarez originated with Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz after officials there noticed that many homicides in the city were related to gangs that operate across the border and that ten percent of the city's murder victims had been deported from the United States.

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He also notes that the city has the lowest murder rate of any major city in the country.

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When India became independent in 1947 (and lost eastern and western wings to Pakistan) the Mahatma was in Calcutta, living under the same roof as the Muslim politician blamed for inciting murder of the city's Hindus, a gesture that temporarily quelled communal passions.

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