(Image via FBI.gov)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).
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.
See post 78.
I understand that, however the criminals who inhabit those big cities are a huge part of the problem.
I worked in many of what are now the worst parts of Philly back in the day, but amazingly survived. Sometimes I even had to take my sleeping toddler in the back seat of the car and lay him in the night watchman's office while I checked a succession of production milestones every few hours throughout the night in some of those old red-brick factories in north, south and northeast Philly (single mother, not by choice, and self-employed). The difference was that the overall culture was still decent and God-fearing until the 90s, with working class people in those big Philly factories being among the most decent individuals in society. It's all weeds, defunct rail tracks and broken glass now.
Your wish is my command. This site lists the hoods they consider the worst; however, you can search it for any individual location of your choosing. But there is a paywall for detailed iinto. Probably a good tool for realtors or relocators.
That's how we got ghettos here on the west coast. During WWII, blacks came west for work from the southeast because whites became soldiers, Japanese-Americans went to concentration camps. Blacks got housing near shipyards (Hunters Point shipyard in SF, Richmond ship-building, Alameda docks, etc.). All those places got ghettos, although the Hunters Point area in San Francisco has seen an influx of asians as blacks have left, and the area is improving.
I am in Seattle, Washington, and I would agree with putting Tacoma on a safer city list.
Tacoma is much more conservative than Seattle and during the last decade or so many small businesses have chosen to relocate in Seattle.
I saw that Parkland, FLA was number 20 in safest cities.
Tacoma Wa has a terrible gang culture.....would not want to be there at night...
Richmond, California is a shithole, if this story says otherwise, it’s fake news.
Neither is Jackson TN
Don't know anything about Tacoma Wa, what's it like? I've stayed in Seattle and didn't like seeing the low-lifes milling about at night. Is Tacoma better?
Too bad
A Tacoma aroma of a different sort
It's really shocking behavior. The town where I live, for whatever reason, has seen an influx of educated African Christians. They are nice families, well spoken with British accents, have polite children and keep their properties neat. Even their less-educated nannies from Africa and visiting parents who don't speak English are respectable Christians. They don't like American blacks and the feeling is mutual, since the African-born blacks make the American blacks' constant grievances sound false and self-indulgent. So it's not genetic; it's just bad attitudes and the American blacks allowing themselves to be corrupted by Democrat identity politics continuing to fight the battles for civil rights as if the laws and social customs had never changed over the past 160 years. The changes have been dramatic, to those of us who are older than 60; then you get old white ignoramuses like Biden and Hillary denouncing whites as if it were 1866.
Bump for later.
Startling truth in what you say. I grew up around a lot of black families in San Francisco. Decent folks. About 20 percent of my block. I played in buildings in the projects (low-income housing) with black friends. There was a shift in the 1960s where young blacks started getting bad attitudes and chips on their shoulder against whites. Not all, but enough to start making crime worse. I've seen it in talking to black middle-class friends who told me about their children and grandchildren adopting ghetto behavior, even though raised better than many whites. Some of my friends were Oreos (more white on the inside than white people I knew). As I say, not all blacks, but some turned bad with bad attitudes. But enough to make it bad for all. Feel bad for the good blacks painted with the same brush by other races. And feel bad for the young blacks caught up by democrat identity politics which is confusing for them.
Right on the mark. Those who are caught-up in the ghetto mentality with local government feeding them identity politics will never get past it.
I grew up poor white trash in rural America but like my four brothers I understood what you needed to end the cycle: stay out of trouble and get your degree. Moving to St Louis MO in the mid-70's I drove by the last of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing that was being imploded, hollowed out testimony to government notions of improving the lives of chronically poor. They chased the blacks out of the city housing and destroyed suburban neighborhoods in Ferguson, Florissant and Spanish Lake. If you don't teach people how to live and raise their children it is just one criminal, dysfunctional generation after another.
Worked in Overland and then downtown for a couple years until the 2nd time I was robbed at gunpoint. Transferred out to St Ann which was better, at least in the late '70's. I got to watch the new F-18 Hornets taking off from the McDonald factory next to Lambert field which was always exciting.
When it was time to build a house I took no chances and went way out in St Charles County.
I haven't been back to the St Louis area in 30 years and from what I have read I'm not missing much. I see St Louis is #6 on this list and East St Louis IL is #3. They got that part right.
Nobody wants to gentrify the properties within a block of the RR tracks.
As a licensed real estate broker-associate I can confirm that it would be a good tool, if we were permitted to use it. To avoid the appearance of bigotry, we are not allowed to quote population demographics or crime statistics; we have to refer the client to the information sources so they can look for themselves. Even driving a client by the local school at recess or dismissal can bring charges of racism if you can't prove that it is just a service and not a "warning" to the client. The real estate commission sends out testers to ensure compliance. I'm sure I've been "tested" in my 33 years, at least twice in person and possibly several times on the phone.
I had one guy looking for lower end properties in the car to look at a few, and he said "I don't want to be near any niggers". I told him "I'm sorry, sir, we can't do business; I'll take you back to the office to get your car".
A nice couple looking in an upscale shore town were viewing a few high priced homes; as we were driving from one showing to the next, a black kid on a bicycle passed us the other way. The two looked at one another in horror (my perception) and she asked "Is there much of THAT around here?" At first I did not comprehend what "that" was, and she explained. I told them that if I commented on that I could lose my real estate license.
I've seen the same thing -- respectable, clean-living and long-suffering black grandparents and great-grandparents pressed into service to babysit or to raise their illegitimate grandchildren, drive their carless descendents to work, lend their grown children money to pay the rent (and never get it back), etc. They raised these children in the church, but even that was not enough to overcome the Street and the Democrat bribery and indoctrination.
Just kidding; but what do you think of "low-crime neighborhood?"
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