Posted on 11/21/2005 12:17:54 PM PST by laney
CAMDEN, New Jersey (AP) -- For the second year in a row this destitute city of Camden, New Jersey, has been named the nation's most dangerous, according to a company's annual ranking based on crime statistics.
Last year, the distinction seemed to hurt city boosters' feelings more than it harmed revitalization efforts. This time, city leaders are offended by the ranking, calling it unfair.
"We're doing so many nice things now. It's unfortunate that somebody always wants to bad-mouth Camden," Mayor Gwendolyn Faison said.
The city took the top spot last year from Detroit, which remained No. 2 in the most dangerous city rankings, to be released Monday by Morgan Quitno Press.
The Lawrence, Kansas-based company publishes "City Crime Rankings," an annual reference book.
Listed as the most dangerous cities are: Camden, New Jersey; Detroit, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Flint, Michigan; Richmond, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Gary, Indiana; Birmingham, Alabama
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Pointing out a fact makes you a racist? Darn inconvienient truths!
As opposed to the safer Texas cities: El Paso and San Antonio.
"Do these cities have an "exit strategy" for the residents?"
Same as Cuba an Mexico, hit the border (in this case 8 Mile Road).
Warren, a tangent suburb is now more prominent on the news. Two murders in two days at same apartment complex.
You can take the X out of Detroit, but not the Detroit out of the X.
Some counties had not had a single murder in a decade so I had to use three decades of info to have enough for a sample. The results were interesting.
First of all there was a positive correlation between percentage of Blacks and murder rate although not as strong as I would have guessed.
After looking over the information something stood out. Some of the counties with the highest Black percentage were rural in the old plantation belt West of Leon County. These counties had only a moderate murder rate.
The ones with the sky high rates were urban. The combination of high percentage of Blacks and urban areas were what made the high murder rates.
Another interesting thing was Dade County had a fairly low rate before 1980.
Went to Gary, Ind. once. Scary, scary place. We were at a nearby casino & wanted to go get some beer for the hotel room. A kind old black man took pity on us and took us to the package store and kind of "held off" the guys hanging around on the corner while we went in & got our beer. We wouldn't do that again!!
"All those cities are majority black"
And your point IS?
Its,OK,I think I already know what your point is.
The truth is not racism, ignorance of obvious fact and name calling is. Show me some facts to bolster your argument.
Isn't Wisconsin a Blue State?
Detroit is #2.....But we try harder ;-)
New Orleans should drop off the list next year. Between the crack dealers and the cops (and the crack dealing cops) who have left, it is now a much safer city.
I can speak for my state of Michigan's 2 cities in the top ten most dangerous. They are diverse as a marshmallow in a coal pile.
Your profile says you've been stationed at Benning a couple of times. You know what color Atlanta's leadership is, and you should know that Georgia hasn't had a republican governor who has completed a full term in over a century and a quarter.
Vermont is a blue state, but they have some of the best gun laws (or gun nonlaws) in the nation.
I see the divide in gun ownership not along red-blue lines, but along city-rural lines. Metropolitan areas will have stringent (and often unconstitutional) gun laws, while rural areas will have fewer laws.
I think that image is in my building.
Do you remember the link?
I lifted it from here, via Google's image search.
http://www.cvservice.cwc.net/pay%20for%20clicks.htm
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