Posted on 06/14/2013 8:40:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Violent crime rose in the U.S. in 2012 for the first time in six years, according to preliminary crime data released by the FBI.
Business Insider analyzed the report to determine the cities with the most violent crime per capita. In the three years we have published this ranking, many cities have repeatedly made the list.
From the decaying Rust Belt, Flint, Mich. emerged as the most dangerous city in 2012, 2011, and 2010, according to our analysis.
Detroit, Mich.; Oakland, Calif.; and St. Louis, Mo. were also consistently among the most dangerous cities.
To improve our ranking and understand its limitations, we consulted several experts.
The main problem with the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, according to UCLA professor Mark Kleiman, is that some cities have broader boundaries and include safer, suburban areas in their crime reports. The center of the city might be crime-ridden, but the safer outskirts skew the overall picture.
Another problem with the UCR is that different police precincts have different ways of classifying aggravated assault versus "simple assault," Carnegie Melon's Alfred Blumstein told us.
Despite these problems, the UCR remains the definitive source of crime data in America. "There is no perfect system, but this is best that we have," says criminal justice professor Tod Burke.
Our preliminary 2012 ranking includes all cities with a population over 100,000. We compared the cities' rates of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, and robbery against 2011 national averages, with the percent deviations averaged to determine overall ranking for violent crime. We did not count aggravated assault due to inconsistent reporting of this crime.
We have included a brief discussion of crime in each city and will add to it any useful insight or responses shared in the comment section or by email.
Now with no further ado ...
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Probably 75 thousand or so people live there now.
Seven or eight thousand of them are students and faculty at Rutgers Camden and never spend any time in the surrounding "city" anyway.
If that campus didn't exist, Camden would likely be as small as another "city" that didn't make the list - East St. Louis.
I would have, because I just read something that said murders are up in Chicago for the first time in 9 years, but I can’t find where I read it. But then again, I wouldn’t have, because I know that TPTB in Chicago have an “unorthodoxt” system of tracking crime in order to make the numbers look better.
Unless someone made an error in transcribing data, Bridgeport Connecticut is, far and away, the forcible rape capital of the U.S. (266 per 100,000)— by a BIG margin.
I wonder what’s up with that.
Indeed, note my use of the conjoint “AND” in my correlation.
IF pigmented AND party-affiliated, THEN high on list.
I personally don’t buy the numbers for Detroit. It an open carry city with the highest justifiable homicide rate in the country but justified homicide is statistically treated the same as murder.
I actually drove a cab in Houston for a short time in the 90's. I was awfully naive.
Don’t see Gainesville, Dawsonville, or Cumming, GA listed. But I do see Atlanta made #23. I wonder what the difference is? Hmmm....
Interesting that 3 of the top 10 most populous cities of the United States are not in there — San Antonio, Dallas, or Houston. Hmm, I wonder why NO Texas city is on the list.
/do I have to specify sarcasm?
Something else, this list does not include ANY border towns.
Guess they forgot about them.
I read on a LE blog that the “yoots” had taken to riding down to the Magnificent Mile in order to form “flash mobs” and looting the high-end businesses there, attacking tourists and shoppers, and generally bringing all their usual mayhem from their hoods. So something called the “Red Line” was closed for repairs, which put a halt to that. So the city’s answer to that was to put more police in the hoods rather than in the areas where people actually pay high taxes for protection. Do you know the real story on this?
They excluded all the border states.
Guess they never heard of Phoenix, Laredo, or El Paso.
pc dontchaknow.
I can just see what Holder’s solution to this problem will be, judging from what he did to a similiar problem in the public schools. Blacks males were gettng disproportionately punished-suspended, expelled, etc-for misbehaviors such as cursing teachers, fighting, assaults with weapons, sexual assaults, etc. So Holder said that this was unfair, and that fewer blacks should be punished, and more whites punished. So now white kids will receive the same punishment for talking in class or chewing gum in class that blacks would receive for pulling a knife on a fellow student. We can’t have disparate impact in punishments even if the misdeeds are on completely different levels!
So to even the crime rates in cities, whites will receive the same sentences for jaywalking or littering that blacks receive for rape or murder. Equality uber alles!
I’m surprised Houston didn’t make the list, with all the Katrina refugees who stayed.
This was done under the "guidance" of political correctness. No Texan is safe in third-world cesspools like El Paso, Laredo or anywhere in the Rio Grande Valley. If Tom Landry were alive today, he'd be appalled at what has happened to his hometown of Mission, Texas.
San Antonio was once nice and a great, safe place to visit (or even live). Now, it's swarming with illegals and thugs, transforming it for the worse as evidenced here. Obama's open borders policy has taken a bad situation and made it horrendous.
The official murder, rape, and auto theft stats for Brownsville and Laredo are lower than the national average, as are murder rates for El Paso. Maybe crimes aren’t getting reported. But big cities tend to have higher crime rates than smaller cities, even those where poverty might make you uncomfortable. Crime rates across the border, though, are a lot higher.
Bridgeport has a very small White population. Now below 23%. 38% Hispanic & 35% Black. Pretty much an urban slum.
CT is about the size of Dallas and Tarrant County in Texas. Sound’s like they need a bit more gun control. Sarcasm ON!
I am frankly surprised it didn’t rank higher on the list. Its getting dangerous even traveling North of Jackson, Ms. Jackson, Tennessee, is also dangerous now with the increase of the diversity.
You may not have seen this, but there are billboards in South Texas announcing that Laredo is safe. No fooling.
It is advertising a website called Laredo is safe.com.
Now if a city has to go that length, what does that tell you?
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