St. Louis is America's Most Dangerous City

[Jagger69]

Congratulations Detroit, Baltimore and Washington, DC. My original home town has overtaken you when it comes to violent crime. I knew it was only a matter of time before we took the title....sort of helps to make up for Mizzou probably not winning the Big 12 North this year. :thumbsup:

St. Louis tops list of most dangerous US cities

TRENTON, N.J. – St. Louis overtook Camden, N.J., as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009, according to a national study released Sunday.

The study by CQ Press found St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4. That helped St. Louis beat out Camden, which topped last year's list and was the most dangerous city for 2003 and 2004.

Detroit, Flint, Mich., and Oakland, Calif., rounded out the top five. For the second straight year, the safest city with more than 75,000 residents was Colonie, N.Y.

The annual rankings are based on population figures and crime data compiled by the FBI. Some criminologists question the findings, saying the methodology is unfair.

Greg Scarbro, unit chief of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, said the FBI also discourages using the data for these types of rankings.

Kara Bowlin, spokeswoman for St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, said the city actually has been getting safer over the last few years. She said crime in St. Louis has gone down each year since 2007, and so far in 2010, St. Louis crime is down 7 percent.

Erica Van Ross, spokeswoman for the St. Louis Police Department, called the rankings irresponsible.

"Crime is based on a variety of factors. It's based on geography, it's based on poverty, it's based on the economy," Van Ross said.

"That is not to say that urban cities don't have challenges, because we do," Van Ross said. "But it's that it's irresponsible to use the data in this way."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101122/ap_on_re_us/us_dangerous_cities

All kidding aside, St. Louis could well serve as the blue-collar poster child for all that is wrong with the USA. A prototypical rust-belt industrial city, the economic woes that have plagued this otherwise wonderful town (best baseball city in America) have been devastating. I guess when people lose their jobs en masse, they get a bit desperate and sometimes resort to violence as a consequence. Sad....I love St. Louis and I hope it can somehow find a way to rebound.

Here's hoping that your favorite city will be next year's winner. Good luck! :glugglug:

 

[shimmy2]

i agree, i stopped for gas once there and the st lunatics creeped up on me like they were gonna eat me. and it was weird cause that was the first time in my life i had ever been scared of black people. the dudes saw me pumping gas in my bmw and emerged from underneath this freeway underpass like zombies it was all too real and chilly bizarre. and this was on the outskirts of stL i hadn't even made it into downtown yet

 

[mr. jizz]

Makes me glad that I live in one of the safest large cities in the nation. It's kind of a contradiction to, with all the violence going on just across the border

 

[Facetious]

From Article: The study by CQ Press found St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4.

Outrageous! that's nearly 5 times the national average . . damn!
Ladies and gentlemen . . . we're living in times of economic uncertainty, if things continue to go south you'd better be prepped to exercise your Second Amendment Rights if need be, don't count on law enforcement to protect yourself and family, they're working at maximum capacity clear 'cross the fruited plain from sea to shinin sea.

FWIW : Ohio as a state seems to be getting more than it's fair share of massacres over the past year or so . . 3 bloody corpses found in a tree trunk last thurs. ...some pretty wicked stuff goin on there.

i agree, i stopped for gas once there and the st lunatics creeped up on me like they were gonna eat me. and it was weird cause that was the first time in my life i had ever been scared of black people. the dudes saw me pumping gas in my bmw and emerged from underneath this freeway underpass like zombies it was all too real and chilly bizarre. and this was on the outskirts of stL i hadn't even made it into downtown yet

I bet that you got outta dodge leaving the last 20 cents of gas at the pump, eh?
Keep my last fuckin pint of gas I'm gone in a flash! :eek:
:glugglug:

 

[D-rock]

Hmmm...maybe even some of the thugs have given up and moved out of Detroit and Flint explaining why they aren't at the top of the list.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

i agree, i stopped for gas once there and the st lunatics creeped up on me like they were gonna eat me. and it was weird cause that was the first time in my life i had ever been scared of black people. the dudes saw me pumping gas in my bmw and emerged from underneath this freeway underpass like zombies it was all too real and chilly bizarre. and this was on the outskirts of stL i hadn't even made it into downtown yet

In some large cities you can find some real creepy old industrial-esque, ghost town type areas on the outskirts that invite crime. Certainly my experience.

 

[Bearded_Menace]

impdaddy:

 

[Elwood70]

Goddammit I thought I saw more than the usual number of people just standing around doing nothing.C'mon Baltimore,you're slackin' off!!

Fun fact: The onetime St. Louis Browns baseball team is now known as.......


....the Baltimore Orioles.

 

[YumiYumi_1988]

Yay, its' not Detroit

 

[Facetious]

In some large cities you can find some real creepy old industrial-esque, ghost town type areas on the outskirts that invite crime. Certainly my experience.

:thinkin abandoned / mothballed Pennsylvania steel mills:
It's so very sad . . . the steel industry in this nation was the industry that built the nation, literally . . railroads, dams, skyscrapers, autos, bridges, highway overpasses . . .now all of this shit needs to be refurbished due to aging / crumblin infrastructure. Just put our order in with the Beijingos I guess.

sorry for driftin the thread :o

 

[Jagger69]

i agree, i stopped for gas once there and the st lunatics creeped up on me like they were gonna eat me. and it was weird cause that was the first time in my life i had ever been scared of black people. the dudes saw me pumping gas in my bmw and emerged from underneath this freeway underpass like zombies it was all too real and chilly bizarre. and this was on the outskirts of stL i hadn't even made it into downtown yet

If you were on your way from Indianapolis, Louisville or Chicago, that was undoubtedly East St. Louis, IL. Don't ever stop for anything there. :eek:

In some large cities you can find some real creepy old industrial-esque, ghost town type areas on the outskirts that invite crime. Certainly my experience.

Yes indeed. Actually, East St. Louis is the worst section of the metro area. You could easily film a scene from Saving Private Ryan there:

 

[maildude]

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

If you were on your way from Indianapolis, Louisville or Chicago, that was undoubtedly East St. Louis, IL. Don't ever stop for anything there. :eek:



Yes indeed. Actually, East St. Louis is the worst section of the metro area. You could easily film a scene from Saving Private Ryan there:

Yeah, would remind me of the movie Trespass or even Judgement Night. I know Mini has some condemned properties in areas that you don't wanna ever go unless you are packing a little somfin somfin, if you catch me.

 

[Kingfisher]

I'm surprised Oakland isn't number #1. But I bet they'll try harder next year.

 

[shayd]

i agree, i stopped for gas once there and the st lunatics creeped up on me like they were gonna eat me. and it was weird cause that was the first time in my life i had ever been scared of black people. the dudes saw me pumping gas in my bmw and emerged from underneath this freeway underpass like zombies it was all too real and chilly bizarre. and this was on the outskirts of stL i hadn't even made it into downtown yet

These guys showed up?!

You at least got a photo with them, right?

 

[Kingfisher]

These guys showed up?!

You at least got a photo with them, right?

What the Hell is with the Hannibal lechter mask, or is that his grill?

 

[CunningStunts]

"Crime is based on a variety of factors. It's based on geography, it's based on poverty, it's based on the economy," Van Ross said.

Violent crime is based on poverty? Jesus... and we wonder why the average murderer only does about 8 years behind bars, rapists about 4... what happened to being accountable for ones actions? I know a lot of poor people who don't commits crimes. :horse:

If you gave EVERYONE in the US $100,000 a piece, would that stop crime? How about a million?

 

[Facetious]

If you gave EVERYONE in the US $100,000 a piece, would that stop crime? How about a million?

If I had a magic wand, every family would be a two parent household, a family that eats dinner together every night no exceptions. There are simply too many young people with no direction in life . . so bring back the family unit I say.

 

[CurtJa]

My guess would be at this point Detroit is running out of people to rob or murder? It certainly can't pay like it used to.

Oddly enough, the only place I've ever been harassed in my life personally was New Haven, Connecticut, when somebody pulled on a knife on me outside of a hotel.

 

[YumiYumi_1988]

My guess would be at this point Detroit is running out of people to rob or murder? It certainly can't pay like it used to.

Detroit's population has been dropping fast. It is less than half of what is was 50-60 years ago. Populations are supposed to increase dramtically, not halve.