The U.S. Virgin Islands' homicide rate exceeds that of the mainland United States and even big cities like Chicago, but investigations can move slowly.
can be a dangerous place – and although they are technically a U.S. territory, American families have struggled to obtain justice there when their loved ones have fallen victim to violent crime.
However, there is a dark side of paradise. The most recent United Nations data on the islands' homicide rate from 2012 shows 49.28 per 100,000 residents. The islands have routinely failed to fully report homicide data to the FBI going back years, records show.in 2021 was estimated to be 29.8 per 100,000, based on city crime stats and data from the Census Bureau. Antigua and Barbuda, another nation of Caribbean islands to the east, had a homicide rate of 9 in 2020, according to the U.N.
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