Posted on 10/30/2006 4:46:35 AM PST by mcg2000
A list of the safest and most dangerous cities overall, as compiled by Morgan Quitno Press, which bases the rankings on FBI figures released in June. The list starts with the safest cities and ends with the most dangerous.
Only cities that reported crime rates were included in the list. For example, New Orleans was not included this year because its police department did not report figures.
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Fairbanks? Fairbanks? Seems odd that a small city in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness would have such problems.
I watched a meter maid going down a line of cars, looking for an expired meter. When she got to the end of the line, where there was a car parked illegally in a space without a meter, she walked on.
There was no meter number to reference for the ticket.
***Bang head on desk***
It was unbelievably stupid. The kids had missed one turn. All she had to do was get them turned around, direct them back over the bridge to the proper exit, and she could have gone back to her nap.
Instead, in the absolutely worst way to greet visitors to our fair city, she decided to "cop" an attitude, and treat them like dirt.
I will be ever so grateful to learn she has moved on to working in a laundromat or something.
Yes, the suburbs are COMPLETELY divorced from the city of St. Louis, particularly as it relates to crime statistics. Even much of the city itself is undergoing a renaissance, which is in many ways curbing crime in those areas.
This statistic is due to the behavior of the....ummmm....usual suspects in a very limited area on the city's north side.
Same is true of Cleveland, and Atlanta, and Cincinnati, and just about every other city on that list.
Um, 313th safest. Slow down and read.
How right you are.... #18 Cincinnati. Controlled by dimwits for decades.
Jerry Springer was mayor here for awhile. He tried to pay for a hooker with a personal check. Go figure.
"Same is true of Cleveland, and Atlanta, and Cincinnati, and just about every other city on that list."
Yes, I know.
But that doesn't stop the JournalistIdiots from publishing it as an indictment of an entire metropolitan area.
It would have been MUCH more accurate to say that, of the cities that release crime statistics, CURRENTLY (subject to weekly variance), St. Louis City has the most virulent SMALL POCKET of dangerous crime.
The Least Dangerous: Notice that 6 out of 25 are in California and 3 are in Orange County, a red county in a blue state.
1. Brick, N.J.
2. Amherst, N.Y.
3. Mission Viejo, Calif.
4. Newton, Mass.
5. Troy, Mich.
6. Colonie, N.Y.
7. Irvine, Calif.
8. Cary, N.C.
9. Greece, N.Y.
10. Coral Springs, Fla.
11. Thousand Oaks, Calif.
12. Orem, Utah
13. Round Rock, Texas
14. Dover, N.J.
15. Lake Forest, Calif.
16. Sterling Heights, Mich.
17. Simi Valley, Calif.
18. Roswell, Ga.
19. Lee's Summit, Mo.
20. Broken Arrow, Okla.
21. Chino Hills, Calif.
22. Gilbert, Ariz.
23. Edison, N.J.
24. Cranston, R.I.
25. Port St. Lucie, Fla.
I am not an expert but I suspect that a city, any city, has as much crime as it is willing to accept.
Take a walk a few blocks north of the Tourisism Center and you'll figure it out, fast.
Thanks for the big laugh, I needed it!
How come their gas is so cheap. We're still at $2.60 a gallon up here?
No Chicago on the list. Whatever. But SAN BERDOO ???
Man that motorcycle club is bigger than I remember.
You're correct it's cultural. Which unfortunately like their voting record, is now strongly tied to a race.
Tom Sowell has hammered on the point that before feel-guilty welfare was handed out, the black population had a much better internal culture; in some particulars even employment was better than in corresponding white populations.
To be fair, I'd like to see Red vs. Blue for both the dangerous and the safe cities.
"Not sure if it was my NRA sticker or my 1911 Colt .45 I set out on the console in plain view, but they left me alone when they came by my truck....."
Nice. I noticed something similar when I bought my truck used I left the NRA sticker on it. I think its led to people "avoiding" confrontations with me.
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