How did Saginaw get snuck into the middle there? It looks like the smalltown capital of murders.
I concur with North Little Rock. Not a happy place.
These are no doubt white majority enclaves.
Seems like several of the top ten have military bases.
They should have listed the demographics.
Just think in the nest thirty yeas maybe Detroit will be a small city and could be on the list. They just missed the cut off for making Gary a small city. Maybe after the next census it will be on the list.
This is probably the only list of negatives that my state of N.J. is not well represented on. We seem to do very well on other negative lists.
That there are safe places to live is a complete fallacy.
A fool’s dream.
I live in a rural area of NC.
50 years or so ago, an area where people never locked their doors. No trespassing signs were rare as hen’s teeth.
Knock on a farmer’s door to ask if you could hunt on his land and you got invited in for “dinner”. Even though he had never seen you before.
I was born in this county but did not live in it until I was forty years old.
Since I returned in 1968 there have been five murders in the immediate neighborhood.
Two of them my second cousin and her husband directly across the road from the house in which I was born, a common thing 86 years ago.
One half mile from our house, on our road, lives the widow of a man killed in a robbery. He was the only person of the five who was engaged in questionable activity. He had a weed patch on his property. Not where the widow lives today, but still in our neighborhood.
One mile from our house, an old retired man, deaf from operating loud equipment, was murdered in is sleep.
Without boring you with more detail, the point is that if it can happen in a community of church going decent hard working people, it can happen anywhere.
If you think your neighborhood is one where it can not happen, you are dreaming.
So statistics like this are valuable if they keep you out of the worst places, but misleading if they lead you to think your area is safe. There is no safe place.
So be wary, ready and quick.
I see that Lancaster PA made the list. Not surprising. And FWIW, it’s not the Amish Mafia that is the problem there.
It’s mostly the same here in York PA. Some days, when I’m watching the local news and hear about the latest shooting or stabbing, carjacking, home invasion, I feel like I’m back home in Baltimore. The only time I venture into York City is when I absolutely have to like back in October when I had to go to the court house to get my expedited passport for an upcoming business trip. It was like going to a 3rd world country. And downtown York doesn’t have much to offer in terms of restaurants or museums or attractions so the only reason I have to go there is when I have to.
Mind you, the surrounding areas, rural York and Lancaster counties are beautiful and there are many good and conservative people in these parts but to be fair and honest it isn’t just the minorities; there are a lot of white welfare scum, mothers with multiple kids from different baby daddies, meth heads and heroin addicts who commit a good number of crimes outside of Lancaster and York Cities. I work in Manheim which is a quaint little town in the heart of Amish country but I understand that there is a very big heroin problem there.
Kingsport, TN, about 2/3 of the way down the list.
The crime reports in the local newspaper read like a reality TV show, a cross between Cops and Honey Boo-Boo.
http://www.timesnews.net/section/police-blotter
Amish and the undocumented, our society’s lethal combination..
Some have their rough spots, but Saginaw is known as Sagnasty for a reason. It's a whole different type of place.
But, every time I visit Florida, I can't believe how crazy dangerous it seems. It must be that the whites in Florida do not understand, or are in denial, about how many, and how many dangerous, people there are who live right around the corner, so to speak.
Maybe some FL FReepers could enlighten me.
obama’s sons and his beloved immigrants are turning the country into a hell hole.
Demographics. Guess what this % refers to.
1. Wilmington, DE - 58.0%
2. Canton, OH - 21.04%
3. Jackson, TN - 45.07%
4. Rocky Mount, NC - 61.3%
5. North Little Rock, AR - 33.98%
6. Pensacola, FL - 28.0%
7. Daytona Beach, FL - 35.4%
8. Homestead, FL - 20.4%
8. Lauderhill, FL - 75.9%
10. Warner Robins, GA - 36.60%
Huff! Here out West we have not had a murder in my small city since the 1950s and violent crimes are unheard of. My only brush with crime was petty vandalism.
Thanks for the list.
I’ll be driving to Florida this summer and was going to make Rocky Mount, NC a midway stopping point. Looking at your list, I see that Rocky Mount is far worse than New Britain, CT. Yikes.
I’ve stayed in nearby Wilson, NC before and it was a really nice town...I think I’ll stay in Wilson instead.