The Best and Worst Run Cities in America

Wall Street 24X7 ^ | 02/12/2013

[Hoodat]

I’m surprised Sandy Springs, GA did not make the list.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Surprised Chicago wasn’t on the worst of the worst list.

L.A., where I live, has deteriorated massively in recent years. Used to have the finest big city police department in the nation. But the liberals have ruined it, just like they ruin every organization they take control of.

[bt-99]

i don’t know what the methodology was on this but I call bogus. Just look at Detroit and Miami and try to figure why Miami is worse run? figure it out.

[joe fonebone]

sorry, wrong again...

miami is not the worst...it is detriot, and here is why... detroit is headed for an emergency financial manager, it is so broke it cannot pay attention, it has a city clowncil that cannot even agree to turn on the streetlights, more ambulances broken then running, hell, a body lay in a field less than 100’ from a POLICE STATION for almost a week....and a reporter from a local news station even told them about it...criminals surrendering at a fire station because the police would not arrest him ( murder ) and it still took 5 hours for a car to arrive and place him under arrest... keep in mind he TRIED to surrender to police...

detoilet has no money, no credit, poor morale on the police, fire and ambulance forces, and is soooo deep in debt it will not get out of it in my lifetime..

and this does not include a city clowncil that screams “RACISM” everytime someone tries to help them.. just read about the recent belle isle proposal, and you will know all you need to know..

Miami, hell...

WE’RE NUMBER ONE...

Detroit, where the weak are killed and eaten..

[Yo-Yo]

Detroit is number two? C’mon, Motor City, try harder!

[cripplecreek]

Surprised Chicago wasn’t on the worst of the worst list.

I agree, it should definitely be in the top 5 and I would even rate it higher than Detroit for a couple of reasons.

If you were to remove justifiable homicide from the murder rate the number would be considerably lower. Detroit is a mess but doesn't have anywhere near the debt of Chicago.

[expat2]

What is the ethnicity of the mayor of each of these cities?

[bt-99]

and the party in power for the last -let’s say-30 years?

[raybbr]

The Bottom ten...

All images from city-data.com

Clearly there is a need for busing.....

[cripplecreek]

Charlie LeDuff, D is for Dumb.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20962645/leduff-d-is-for-dumb-as-in-detroit-police-using-a-decoy-squad-car

If you’re going to use police cars as decoys, ya might wanna shovel the snow off them every once in a while.

[Portcall24]

Ha. What a load of crap. If they moved Virginia Beach (VB) to the Eastern Shore of Virginia you know they are about a clueless as a post turtle. VB is in the Tidewater portion of Virginia, not Eastern Shore. It’s called attention to detail and having someone check your facts.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I’m surprised Sandy Springs, GA did not make the list.

For Best, or worst run?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: i don’t know what the methodology was

The methodology is right there in the article. Read the last paragraph.

[joe fonebone]

yeah, i saw that one... lol..

the only solution is to move people from the moonscape sections of town into the more populated area’s..

use the prisoners to rehab homes in the populated area’s, and use them to tear down the moonscape area’s..

then fence off the moonscapes, cut services and roads, and have a smaller area to service..

but no, dat be racist, dat be the hostile white suburbanites ( as coleman young called us ) tryin’ to take our jewels....

the mayor is trying to do something, but the city clowncil ( no spelling error here ) thwarts him at every turn..

hell, the school board president did not even graduate from high school and could not read or spell!!!!!

[Hoodat]

Best

Georgia City Saves Big After Privatizing Services

[raybbr]

Apparently city-data.com blocks hotlinking images. Click on each link to see racial make up of the twenty cities. They are in order presented in the article.

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The Bottom ten

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Clearly there is a need for busing.....

[drbuzzard]

Yeah, the only measure by which Miami lagged Detroit was high school graduates, and I have to wonder about that number given what I’ve heard about the Public schools in Detroit. Oh, and they were upset about income inequality. That’s a worthless statistic anyway.

By every other measure Detroit was far and away worse. Now don’t get me wrong. Miami is almost a third world cesspool, but Detroit is a post war ruin.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: What is the ethnicity of the mayor of each of these cities?

Don’t know what ethnicity has to do with how well as city is run, but for the Top 10 best run,

PLANO TEXAS has a white mayor — Phil Dyer

CHANDER, AZ has a white mayor — Jay Tibshraeny

Chesapeake, Va has a whote mayor — Alan Krasnoff

SEATTLE, WA has a white mayor -— Mike McGinn

SCOTTSDALE, AZ has a white mayor — Jim Lane

Lincoln, Nebraska has a white mayor — Chris Beutler

Fremont, CA has a white mayor — Bill Harrison

Madison, Wi has a white mayor -— Paul Soglin

Irvine, CA has an Asian Mayor — Sukhee Kang (Korean)

Virginia Beach has a white mayor — Will Sessoms

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i don’t know what the methodology was on this but I call bogus. Just look at Detroit and Miami and try to figure why Miami is worse run? figure it out.

True. Look at the statistics. Detroit is worse.

Maybe they think Detroit's a lost cause and figure Miami could still improve. Maybe they hope it does and want to give them a shock.

Maybe they didn't want a majority Black city at the bottom (though that didn't stop them from putting Newark lower than it could have been).