Posted on 10/18/2023 10:33:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democratic mayors are in charge of almost all of the United States' 10 most dangerous cities, based on analyses of the latest available national data on violent crimes and the cost of crime.
NeighborhoodScout and MoneyGeek used different methodologies to gauge the most violent and costliest crime cities, although five of the cities ended up on both lists.
NeighborhoodScout’s report is based on the number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents in cities with 25,000 or more people. The data are based on the number of violent crimes reported to the FBI in each city, projections of violent crime rates based on prior years’ data, and the population of each city, according to the company.
MoneyGeek analyzed the most recent crime statistics from the FBI to estimate the societal cost of crime per resident in 263 cities that have populations greater than 100,000.
NeighborhoodScout says it matches crime incident data from "all 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies in the U.S. to the specific local communities the agency covers, and hence in which community the crimes have occurred."
The organization considers homicide, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault as violent crimes.
Its most dangerous city is Bessemer, Alabama, with a violent crime rate of 33.1 crimes per 1,000 residents. Bessemer is a suburb of Birmingham, which comes up sixth on this list and second on MoneyGeek's "cost of crime" top 10 list.
NeighborhoodScout lists Monroe, Louisiana, as its second most dangerous city, with a rate of 26.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents. Monroe sits halfway between Shreveport, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi.
In third place is Saginaw, Michigan, with a violent crime rate of 25.1 per 1,000 residents. Saginaw is about 100 miles northwest of Detroit.
Rounding out the top 10 are Memphis, Tennessee; Detroit; Birmingham, Alabama; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Alexandria, Louisiana; and Cleveland.
(The Epoch Times)
Several mayoral races in the above cities are run as nonpartisan elections, which means all candidates are in one pool for voters.
However, all but one of the cities are run by mayors who are either Democrats or are affiliated with the Democratic Party. The exception is Monroe, Louisiana, whose mayor, Friday Ellis, is a Republican-turned-independent.
MoneyGeek's data measure the cost of crime per capita in cities of 100,000 or more. It doesn't drill down to cities as small as NeighborhoodScout (25,000) but ends up with a very similar list and five exact matches.
“Crime and safety are intertwined with prosperity, income, and economic opportunity. Crime is costly to individual victims, perpetrators, communities, and society at large,” the finance company posted on its website.
Overall, MoneyGeek calculated the cost of crime in 2021 was $1,836 per capita in U.S. cities, up 6 percent, or $100 per capita, since 2020.
The company says it analyzed crime data, including violent crimes such as murder, rape, and aggravated assault and property crimes such as home burglary and motor vehicle theft. MoneyGeek omitted any cities that didn't report murder and rape.
It calculated the cost of crime based on the "direct economic costs of crime to individuals and society."
This includes the medical and mental health care costs for victims and the damage to and loss of property, and the costs for police and corrections, MoneyGeek stated in its report.
"Aside from the imminent danger of crime, people living in higher crime areas see depressed home values and pay higher prices for crucial needs, including home insurance, renters insurance, and auto insurance," the report states.
Ranking No. 1 on MoneyGeek’s list is St. Louis, which has an estimated crime cost per capita of $8,457, according to the finance company. Democrat Tishaura Jones was sworn in as the 47th mayor and the first black female mayor in the city’s history on April 20, 2021. Her predecessor was also a Democrat.
(The Epoch Times)
“Hey, Siri, give me a list of 10 American cities with black populations in excess of 70 percent...”
Per capita Skittles and iced tea consumption?
Albuquerque didn’t make the list?
I am very surprised Chicago isn’t on there..
In the 1960s though, American culture lurched to the Left toward a do your own thing ethic that embraced recreational drugs and ditched traditional mores and sexual responsibility. In addition, federal welfare policies rewarded lack of work, illegitimacy, and lack of marriage. The end result of not having the father in the household supervising his children and supporting their mother is that adult males lose their defining role in life and their children are much less likely to grow up to be law-abiding and responsible adults.
This is all abundantly shown by well-researched and strongly argued conservative studies, articles, and books. What has astonished me over the years is that I have so often heard the same thing from thoughtful black people I have known, from ordinary citizens to black welfare bureaucrats, school teachers, civil rights activists, and criminal justice professionals. Their contrarian thinking though lacks an organized voice, with Republicans too inhibited to reach out to them with politically attractive reforms and counter-policies.
With the benefits of education, good work habits, and accumulated wealth and social capital, white families have mostly resisted the downward pull of bad cultural trends and social policies. Sadly though, that is not universally true, and there are few more determined supporters of Leftism's destructive policies and politics than educated, unmarried, white women.
Nether is Philadelphia. It is the reporting methods and the social justice criminal code. Crimes that used to be felonies are now just misdemeanors.
Epoch Times link is broken, error 404...
Yep. Lots of Dem cities without that element that aren’t on the list. (Though yes, that element leads to Dem cities, too, and some Dem policies of course aren’t great for crime.)
The 1st link at the top works for me. The 2ne one does not.
“Hey, Siri, give me a list of 10 American cities with black populations in excess of 70 percent...”
Ding ding ding, we have a 🏆
Yep.
White hippies ruined everything.
I had no idea that Saginaw was that way, let alone would rank.
You use the word "ruined." Let me use more specific words as to what "white" hippies did and didn't do.
Hippies didn't make anyone do anything. They just freed people to follow their natural instincts.
That wasn't wise. But I wouldn't put all the blame on hippies.
Bessemer 70% Black 19% White
Monroe 63% Black 30% White
Saginar 45% Black 37% white
Memphis 61% Black 27% White
Detroit 72% Black 15% White
Birmingham 69% Black 23% White
Pine Bluff 77% Black 18% White
Little Rock 40% Black 42% White
Alexandria 55% Black 37% White
Cleveland 48% Black 32% White
My heart goes out to black communities ruined by democratic policies
| Detroit | Knoxville | |
| Crime rate | 79.77 | 49.77 |
| Percentage white non-:atino population | 91.2% | 9.5% |
I was expecting more of a drastic difference considering the news. And yes, this is hardly a scientific sample
When I compare it to Rzeszow, Poland, which has a similar population to Knoxville, the crime rate is 12.31 --> a quarter that of Knoxville and 1/6th that of Detroit
This tells me that there is a need to change the culture
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