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Report: Top 100 Most Dangerous Cities in the U.S. (The South did not fare very well)
PJ Media ^ | 03/08/2018 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 03/08/2018 11:33:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind

NeighborhoodScout, a web-based platform that, among other things, tracks crime statistics, released its annual list of the Top 100 Most Dangerous Cities in the U.S. for 2018.

According to a press release, the list is based on a comparison of the safety of cities with 25,000 or more people nationwide, "based on the number of violent crimes (murder, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault) reported to the FBI to have occurred in each city, and the population of each city, divided by 1,000." The calculation reveals the rate of violent crimes per 1,000 residents.

The most dangerous city in American, according to the report, is Monroe, Louisiana, followed by Bessemer, Ala., and East St. Louis, Illinois. Rounding out the top ten are Camden, N.J., Detroit, Mich., St. Louis, Mo., Wilmington, Del., Alexandria, La., Memphis, Tenn., and W. Memphis, Ark.

NeighborhoodScout's study is based on the FBI's most recent "Final, Non-Preliminary" data. Because there is a lag in FBI reporting, the 2018 list is based on the 2016 data that was released in September 2017. "The 2017 year total crime data is not complete," the report notes. "The FBI is still working through data issues and reporting issues before that data can be considered Final, and Non-Preliminary."

"Preliminary statistics show declines in the number of both violent crimes and property crimes reported for the first half of 2017 when compared with the first half of 2016," according to the FBI report. "The report includes data from more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide that submitted crime data to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program."

(Image via FBI.gov)

According to the FBI, overall violent crime in the U.S. "decreased 0.8 percent in the first six months of 2017 compared with the same time frame in 2016, though the number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters reported increased by 1.5 percent. Additionally, the number of rapes (revised definition) decreased 2.4 percent, robberies decreased 2.2 percent, and aggravated assaults were down 0.1 percent."

Percent change by population group. Click to enlarge. (Image via FBI)

Overall property crime dropped 2.9 percent in the first half of 2017 as did burglaries (6.1 percent), and larceny-thefts (3 percent). Motor vehicle thefts increased 4.1 percent, however.

The safest cities amongst those considered by NeighborhoodScout are Cincinnati, Ohio, Lauderhill, Fla., Schenectady, N.Y., Sanford, Fla., Huntsville, Ala., Eureka, Calif., Richmond, Calif., Jackson, Tenn., New Haven, Conn., and Tacoma, Washington.

"We continue to see a number of smaller, industrial-satellite communities struggle with crime," observed Dr. Andrew Schiller, CEO and founder of Location, Inc. and NeighborhoodScout. "Limited economic opportunity plays a role in such communities and highlights the divide between the safe bedroom communities within large metro areas near major urban centers like Boston, Chicago, and New York, and the high-crime industrial-satellite communities."

Monroe, La., according to the report, is representative of several of the communities on the list: "It is a medium-sized city (population: 49,297) located around 100 miles away from two larger cities (Shreveport, LA, population 194,920 to the west, and Jackson, MS, population 169,148 to the east)."

"Compared to the rest of the nation," the report continued, "Monroe is lower middle income and has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty." It also has an above-average housing vacancy rate and a lower public school quality, resulting in an inability to attract high-paying jobs and retained skilled workers.

Monroe experienced 1,500 violent crimes and 4,704 property crimes, resulting in 125.85 total crimes per 1,000 residents. If you live in Monroe, your chances of being a victim of violent crime are 1 in 33. If you live in the state of Louisiana, your chances are 1 in 177.

Compare that to Cincinnati, the safest city on the list, with 61.53 crimes per 1,000 residents. Your chances of becoming a victim in Cincy are also significantly lower (1 in 110) as well as in Ohio overall (1 in 333).

Nationwide the rates for burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft are 4.69, 17.45, and 2.37 respectively.

Michigan topped the list of states that have the highest number of dangerous cities with nine. That was followed by Florida (8), California (7), Massachusetts and Ohio (tie, 6), and Illinois and Lousiana (tie, 5).

Location, Inc.

Missing from the list is Chicago, which has seen an unprecedented number of murders in recent years. The city's residents experienced 650 homicides in 2017, down 16 percent from 2016, but still significantly high. Someone is shot in Chicago every two hours on average, and a person is murdered every 12:59 minutes, according to one report. However, because of Chicago's high population density, the chances of becoming a crime victim are lower than in other, less populous cities.

View the complete Top 100 list here.


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To: SeekAndFind

Any inner city in CT is a war zone. I was going to say jungle but...


61 posted on 03/08/2018 12:57:18 PM PST by McGruff (It's time to investigate the investigators)
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To: Puppage

Camden, NJ aspires to work its way up to sh*ithole.


62 posted on 03/08/2018 12:58:44 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Blue Collar Christian

Kind of confusing. We do know Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, St. Louis, etc ... but some of those cities in the south don’t make sense like Monroe. You have a town of five hundred people and ten are shot that would maybe make it look worse than Chicago.


63 posted on 03/08/2018 12:58:48 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: doorgunner69

Too much of modern western culture is an agreed-upon lie, either overtly or tacitly. I doubt it will get better anytime soon.


64 posted on 03/08/2018 1:00:16 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: TallahasseeConservative

Gangs, drugs and St. Skittles types.


65 posted on 03/08/2018 1:04:49 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: SkyDancer

Monroe is the worst, as Cincinnati is the best at #100.

Wow - that surprises me. Those duck boys need to come out of the woods and do some street patrol.


66 posted on 03/08/2018 1:13:27 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Hoffer Rand

“Wow, Salt Lake City jumps from not even on the list to 90.”

Salt Lake has become just like other major cities, but from the stats below the problem isn’t with AA’s

Stats:

At the 2010 census, Salt Lake City’s population was 75.1% White, 2.6% African American, 1.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 4.4% Asian, 2.0% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 10.7% from other races and 3.7% of mixed descent. 22.3% of the total population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.


67 posted on 03/08/2018 1:13:38 PM PST by vette6387
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To: L,TOWM
Richmond, Calif., is a s****ole and there is no way it is one of the safest cities in the country.

Yeah, no kidding, I can't take a study seriously when it has Richmond CA as one of the safest cities.

68 posted on 03/08/2018 1:28:57 PM PST by Mozzafiato
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To: JudyinCanada

So I don’t really know then. Monroe being #1 at the bottom is worse than #58 Chicago? Wow.


69 posted on 03/08/2018 1:32:23 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Puppage

Caption—You kids get outta da house and go play.


70 posted on 03/08/2018 1:45:23 PM PST by RightLady (Adam Schiff is NOT Adam Smith)
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To: TallahasseeConservative
"The city's residents experienced 650 homicides in 2017, down 16 percent from 2016, ... Someone is shot in Chicago every two hours on average, and a person is murdered every 12:59 minutes, according to one report."

I believe somebody has their math wrong. A murder every 12 minutes would be 120 murders per day.

71 posted on 03/08/2018 1:51:45 PM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many of the top 100 have Republican leadership? (crickets)


72 posted on 03/08/2018 2:34:41 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jackson, TN is a small city of 70,000 or so. Statistics on a city that small is an outlier.


73 posted on 03/08/2018 2:42:03 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Camden, number 4! Wilmington, number 7! Philly is way down there at number 76, even safer than DC, at number 41.


74 posted on 03/08/2018 3:14:22 PM PST by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: Kid Shelleen

How could I have forgotten Chester? It’s number 21! Twice as safe as Baltimore, number 11.

It’s ironic that Philly’s score is “76”, you have to admit. Somebody should put up a big clothespin statue at City Hall plaza with the spring lever shaped like a 76... oh, wait....

“The city that loves you better than the worst 75 cities!


75 posted on 03/08/2018 3:19:36 PM PST by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: SeekAndFind

When did Cincinnati become safe?


76 posted on 03/08/2018 3:28:35 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Albion Wilde
I would love to see a survey of the 100 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods as well.
Trenton, Camden and Chester were all once little industrial power houses. Now look at them after 50 years of New Left Democratic rule.
77 posted on 03/08/2018 3:58:38 PM PST by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: roadcat
We just don't have bad ghettos on the west coast that look as bad as those on the east coast..

It's because the east coast was settled earlier, so a lot of the earlier small board or brick houses fell into ruins earlier. Also, eastern cities were largely industrial, and became not only the intake for immigrants earlier, but also for post-Civil Rights southerners coming north for work.

78 posted on 03/08/2018 3:59:02 PM PST by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: SeekAndFind

This argument should be framed in terms of victims and not perps. Blaming perps excuses leftists who cause these conditions from blame, because all they have to do is cry structural racism, blah blah. It’s not true, but that’s their excuse.

Meanwhile, they’re also getting a free pass from the victims. If we conservatives focused on the so real and horrible consequences of these crimes we’d make a stronger argument against the actual causes of them.


79 posted on 03/08/2018 4:01:59 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Vermont Lt
We have a new casino opening up in the fall... (We are so screwed. The dirt bag population is going to sky rocket.)

You got that right. Philly's large white blue-collar neighborhoods went straight downhill as soon as Philly legalized gambling. Mobster paradise; no parking on weekends; "booze and broads" atmosphere and big payoffs seeping up into the city council, etc.

80 posted on 03/08/2018 4:02:53 PM PST by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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