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St. Louis usurps Detroit to become most violent city in the US: (tr)
Daily Mail ^ | 2-8-16 | unattributed

Posted on 02/08/2016 3:31:31 PM PST by dynachrome

A list of the most violent cities in each state has been released, with St. Louis, Missouri taking the top spot. Compiled from data released by the FBI charting crime in the first six months of 2015, the 'Gateway City' is followed by Memphis, Tennessee, Detroit, Michigan, Birmingham, Alabama, and Rockford, Illinois, to round out the top five. The violent crimes listed by the FBI include rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and murder. Because the data excludes states with cities that do not have populations over 100,000, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming are not listed and ranked.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: crime; detroit; stlouis
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To: MarMema

That’s good news; there is hope. Once city governments realize nobody is going to magically appear just to provide everything for their gibsmedats, they either take action or simply ride it into the ground (pocketing tons of money along the way); all too often, the state governments have to step in because these welfare reservations bleed state coffers dry as well.


41 posted on 02/08/2016 4:41:28 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry, Ferguson is in St. Louis County. These are the stats for St. Louis City, which is NOT part of the County. It was beating Detroit in baseball and crime for some time. In fact, every year there is a t-shirt showing the latest comparison stats. Someone else finally noticed.


42 posted on 02/08/2016 4:47:17 PM PST by MHT (,`)
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To: wny

St. Louis needs a Republican mayor or it needs to fall into the Mississippi River and start from scratch, which is more likely to happen than electing a Republican mayor.


43 posted on 02/08/2016 4:48:12 PM PST by MHT (,`)
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To: Ken H

I knew a man who made his living off life insurance sold to mothers of black inner city boys in St. Louis. Every week he went by their houses and collected another $5. This wasn’t life insurance, it was funeral insurance so their kids could have a decent burial. The richest guys in the ghetto are the funeral home directors, drug dealers, and those who sell hair care products.


44 posted on 02/08/2016 4:50:23 PM PST by MHT (,`)
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To: MarMema

How bout that? Citizens carrying guns seems to have scared off the criminal element.


45 posted on 02/08/2016 5:21:26 PM PST by uncitizen (TRUMP THE SYSTEM)
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To: mowowie
New FBI Crime Figures Confirm: Black Towns Most Dangerous, White Areas Safest

(Dec, 2014 article)

46 posted on 02/08/2016 5:26:02 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: nascarnation

Chicago has many more “pacified” neighborhoods.

Some time back I was looking at Chicago crime stats broken down by... district, I think, and one of the worst and one of the best were right beside each other (separated by the river). As a frequent visitor, I still haven't figured out the logic on why some are so much worse than others (there are general patterns like north to south, but also weird outliers)

Chicago's giving it the ol' college try this year, though. January murder rate that matches a spring month last year, Not Good.

47 posted on 02/08/2016 5:29:33 PM PST by Amity
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To: kearnyirish2
I've seen some positive comments about Detroit on FR..

Don't hold your breath. There are many, many areas of Detroit where being white will get you killed, especially the western end.

There were days that I thanked God as I passed 8 mile northbound out of Detroit.
48 posted on 02/08/2016 5:38:41 PM PST by farming pharmer ('Your work will warm you' - overheard in a Soviet gulag...)
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To: akalinin

As I stated, I have no firsthand knowledge of the situation, but I know what a partial recovery looks like as opposed to urban Hell. Some sections of Jersey City are much safer than they had been in the past, but the same can’t be said of neighboring Newark NJ.


49 posted on 02/08/2016 5:43:08 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: dynachrome

Odessa supposedly super violent?

Odessa Texas had the following homicide totals:

2011———6
2012———5
2013———2
2014———11

I think that last year was about 7 IIRC.

Flint, Michigan has about 110,000 versus Odessa’s 130,000.
Flint has 50-—70 Killings per year. Odessa had half as many killings in the last five years than Flint has in one year.


50 posted on 02/08/2016 6:00:02 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: dynachrome

St Louis is actually a rather small city , it was separated from St Louis County over taxation issues back in the late 19th century, one of few cities that is not part of a county and has a city Sherriff as well as a PD.

It has dwindled from 800+k in the 1940s to around 315k today- a devastated inner city mess.

Ferguson is not part of St Louis, but a ‘burb.

Avoid it.


51 posted on 02/08/2016 6:00:57 PM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: wny

I haven’t been to St. Louis in over 30 years. I used to go the McDonnel-Douglas plant there quite regularly as a young engineer working for the F15 SPO. The weather sucked there 95% of the time but the people were nice and it was relatively safe. The only really bad area was East St. Louis across the river in IL.


52 posted on 02/08/2016 6:02:44 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yup.


53 posted on 02/08/2016 6:03:07 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: uncitizen

I remember that statement.


54 posted on 02/08/2016 6:06:19 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Rockpile

Odessa had 24 killings from 2011—14.

Flint had 191 killings from 2011—14.


55 posted on 02/08/2016 6:14:37 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Son and DIL live in Clayton while attending grad school Nice place but don’t stray too far outside the area.....


56 posted on 02/08/2016 6:19:19 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m guessing the numbers they use are per capita or something.. St. Louis and Detroit are only a fraction of the size of Chicagoland...

I live up here and get to St. Louis quite often - it’s a great town - the good parts - but I’d wager half the town is FUBAR.. you can’t say that about Chicago... the bad part of Chicago is actually pretty small compared to the size of the city..


57 posted on 02/08/2016 6:54:01 PM PST by acw011 (Great Goooogly Mooogly!)
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To: Rockpile

That’s one reason I prefer to use murder rates instead of violent crime rates. It seems to me like it’s the most apples-to-apples crime stat across jurisdictions.


58 posted on 02/08/2016 8:20:31 PM PST by Ken H
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