[Texas_shutterbug]

St. Louis makes the top of the list because they have a small incorporated city with all the social ills that implies with huge suburbs that are NOT part of the city surrounding it.

It's accurate....and it's not.

[RockinRight]

Same is true of Cincinnati and even Cleveland. Cleveland proper, plus a couple old inner east-side suburbs (E. Cleveland, Euclid) are pretty rough, but the majority of the metro is quite safe.

[EyeGuy]

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.