America's (10) Most Murderous Cities

Forbes ^ | 8 November 2007 | David M. Ewalt

[shrinkermd]

...Of course, television doesn't always tell the whole story. The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

But homicide does result in many thousands of deaths every year. And a comparison of the 72 American cities with a population over 250,000, using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, reveals that some places are definitely more murderous...

The ten most murderous cities are discussed in detail but for the record they are:

• Detroit
• Baltimore
• New Orleans
• Newark
• St. Louis
• Oakland
• Washington, D.C.
• Cincinnati
• Philadelphia
• Buffalo

  Surprisingly, the country's biggest cities aren't usually the most dangerous. Out of the 10 most murderous cities in America, only one, Philadelphia, has a population over 1 million. And America's biggest metro, New York City, is also one of its safest; with a murder rate of 7.3 per 100,000 people, it comes in at No. 50 on a list of the 72 American cities with a population over 250,000

[VOA]

No way Chicago is not on this list...Or LA???...come on.
This does not pass the smell test.

I don't know about Chicago...but there might be one explanation
for Los Angeles not on the list.
If the demographers are including "the greater Los Angeles area",
it would probably include locales like Sherman Oaks and Simi Valley...
places that often go for a full year without a (known) murder.
That might dilute the murder rate when piled in with the stats
from less-hospitable areas like South Central, Athens, Hawaiian Gardens,
East LA and the like.

[raygunfan]

heavily black and heavily democratic party disasters...

big surprise...

[the invisib1e hand]

Cut that population requirement back, and Desert Hot Springs (meth lab capital of southern California) would be way up there....

yeah, I can think of a few places that would make such a list. Worcester Mass, for one.

[chadwimc]

Cincinnati saw an upswing in violent crime after the riots early in this century. The cops took a “see no evil” stance. The flatfoots only responded to calls, no proactive police work. The results speak for themselves.

[uglybiker]

Due to the death penalty and tough on crime laws liberals would like to jettison.

Yeah! Ya notice none of those cities are in Texas!

[Aussiebabe]

You are correct. My husband is from St. Louis and the boundaries were set at the time of the Civil War by the Missouri Constitution. That is why the population of St. Louis is only something like 353 thousand, but the metro area with suburbs is 2.8 million. So many times statistics on St. Louis only account for this smaller, poorer section of St. Louis.

[Charles Martel]

St. Louis - I thought the mid-west was more peaceful.

St. Louis is a river town, plagued by the same sort of problems as New Orleans. I'm a bit surprised that Memphis (another riverside metropolis) didn't make the list.

Go find that red/blue electoral map at USA Today... the one that drills down to the county level. The Mississippi river has a lot of blue along both banks.

[Gorzaloon]

And Buffalo...where it is so darn cold, and covered with snow and ice most of the time (that's why I left the north anyway) that I would think most people would be too busy keeping warm and staying inside!

Despair must have a hand in it.

[em2vn]

Does the St.Louis data join St.Louis,Missouri and St.Louis, Illinois together?

[Norman Bates]

LOL Comforting to know one lives in the second most deadly city in America!

P.S. (Ray Nagin = ex-Republican)

[x_plus_one]

St. Louis ia an armpit

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Is there ANY major city not run by ‘Rat liberals?

Well, NYC hasn't had a Dem mayor since Rudy got in in 1994. I am no Rudy (or Kerik) fan, but they have made NYC a safe place to live!

[casino66]

I would think a murder is a murder whether they catch the perp or not.

I wonder how many were drug related. And, just exactly where was L.A.?

I used to sell residential real estate in Baltimore, lost many a sale to people transfering in from other cities when they found out about the crime. One just has to know where not to go, unless they are buying. Now I am in Wilmington DE and in the county I live in there has been about 1 murder in the last two years.

[Brad from Tennessee]

2006 Figures http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

#1 Colombia: 0.617847 per 1,000 people
#2 South Africa: 0.496008 per 1,000 people
#3 Jamaica: 0.324196 per 1,000 people
#4 Venezuela: 0.316138 per 1,000 people
#5 Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people
#6 Mexico: 0.130213 per 1,000 people
#7 Estonia: 0.107277 per 1,000 people
#8 Latvia: 0.10393 per 1,000 people
#9 Lithuania: 0.102863 per 1,000 people
#10 Belarus: 0.0983495 per 1,000 people
#11 Ukraine: 0.094006 per 1,000 people
#12 Papua New Guinea: 0.0838593 per 1,000 people
#13 Kyrgyzstan: 0.0802565 per 1,000 people
#14 Thailand: 0.0800798 per 1,000 people
#15 Moldova: 0.0781145 per 1,000 people
#16 Zimbabwe: 0.0749938 per 1,000 people
#17 Seychelles: 0.0739025 per 1,000 people
#18 Zambia: 0.070769 per 1,000 people
#19 Costa Rica: 0.061006 per 1,000 people
#20 Poland: 0.0562789 per 1,000 people
#21 Georgia: 0.0511011 per 1,000 people
#22 Uruguay: 0.045082 per 1,000 people
#23 Bulgaria: 0.0445638 per 1,000 people
#24 United States: 0.042802 per 1,000 people
#25 Armenia: 0.0425746 per 1,000 people

[fieldmarshaldj]

Stand proud, Bawlamer ! ;-D

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I surely hope Reid and Pelosi don’t see these numbers. They will surely want to pull us out of those cities.

[B-Chan]

[casino66]

Speaking of Pelosi, she is going to be the master of ceremonies at the JJ dinner at 8:30 tonite on CSPAN, and they will be streaming it. Should be fun, all the dim candidates will be trashing each other.

[CARTOUCHE]

I would bet (I am a betting man as it were) that most of the murders in these large cities are most generally confined to a specific area of each city as is the case here in Kansas City, Missouri. (Kansas City, Kansas, well, that’s another story altogether.)