[Paladin2]

"A note about St. Louis: Its homicide rate was staggeringly high — 35.5 per 100,000 — but the city no longer is among the nation’s 50 largest. "

How's E. St. Louie doin'?

[Graybeard58]

"A note about St. Louis: Its homicide rate was staggeringly high — 35.5 per 100,000 — but the city no longer is among the nation’s 50 largest. "

How's E. St. Louie doin'?

With a population of 26,708 I doubt that East St. Louis ranks in the largest thousand cities in the U.S.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

E. St. Louie is doing well in the killing category. Run by Democrats, as usual.

KC (say wasn’t that one of Kathleen’s cities?) has always had a problem and it wasn’t with the Amish.

Look at who has run the listed cities for the past 30 years.

As Paul Harvey used to say, “Now you know the whole story”.

[Paladin2]

“Odds of falling victim to a violent crime in East St. Louis were a frightening 1 in 17. Odds of falling victim to either a violent crime or a property-related crime were an even more disheartening 1 in 7. On top of these numbers, residents of East St. Louis were more likely than residents of nearly any other city on this list to have their car stolen (with the exception of Detroit), with a 1 in 64 chance of being victim of car theft.”

[csvset]

Went through E. St. Louis back in ‘98. Block after block of empty store fronts, an economic dead zone. I wonder if it has improved.