Baseball isn’t the only thing St. Louis is No. 1 at. A report by Lawrence-based Morgan Quitno Press listed St. Louis as the most dangerous city in the United States. The report said the “gateway to the West” had a 20 percent increase in crime between 2004 and 2005, compared with only a 2.5 percent increase nationally. Following St. Louis on the most dangerous list is Detroit and Flint, Mich., and Compton, Calif.
Overall, the 12 states comprising the Midwest region saw a 5.7 percent increase in violent crime. That’s three times higher than the rest of the regions. But maybe it’s like everyone says: The Midwest is always the last to adopt trends.
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an increase in negores/non-White latinos= an increase in crime
Wetbacks have been flooding into the mid-West so there has been a huge upsurge in crime. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figur that out!
V.L.R.B!!
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I wonder what the crime rate is like in Florissant, and other St. Louis burbs…
I think we need a study to compare based on the entire area.
Many may not know this, but St. Louis only has a populus of 330,000. Its suburbs total in the million range.
hmmm….
Erik is right for the need to factor in the metro area, but that area amounts to almost 3 million people — far more than a million.
I’m a biased source, having grown up in STL and visiting several times a year. However, I’ve never experienced any crime in my hometown, and there is no area west of the Mississippi (in STL Metro) of which I’m afraid. The crime definitely exists, but all it takes is a little forethought, common sense, and awareness to avoid.
And Santiago’s racist comments are unnecessary and misguided. Anyone with any economics knowledge can show that crime is linked to poverty and desperacy not skin tone or nation of origin. St. Louis is actually a beautiful melting pot of success among all races. Wichita is very segregated in that respect; STL is not.
“neg”,
Facts are not racist, they just are, coconut!
ST. LOUIS, Missouri – A surge in violence made St. Louis [2000 pop. 51.2% Black] the most dangerous city in the country, according to an annual list.
The city has long fared poorly in the rankings of the safest and most dangerous American cities compiled by Morgan Quitno Press. Violent crime surged nearly 20 percent in St. Louis from 2004 to last year, when the rate of such crimes rose most dramatically in the Midwest, according to FBI figures released in June.
“It’s just sad the way this city is,” resident Sam Dawson said. “On the news you hear killings, someone’s been shot.”
The ranking, being released Monday, came as the city was still celebrating Friday’s World Series victory at the new Busch Stadium. St. Louis has been spending millions of dollars on urban renewal even as the crime rate climbs.
Mayor Francis Slay did not return calls to his office seeking comment Sunday.
Scott Morgan, president of Morgan Quitno Press, a private research and publishing company specializing in state and city reference books, said he was not surprised to see St. Louis top the list, since it has been among the 10 most dangerous cities for years.
The study looks at crime only within St. Louis city limits, with a population of about 330,000, Morgan said. It doesn’t take into account the suburbs in St. Louis County, which has roughly 980,000 residents.Full article
MOST DANGEROUS TWENTY [2000 Population by race appears in brackets]
1. St. Louis [51.2% Black]2. Detroit [81.6% Black]3. Flint, Mich. [53.3% Black]4. Compton, Calif. [56.8% Hispanic, 40.3% Black]5. Camden, N.J. [53.3% Black, 38.8% Hispanic]6. Birmingham, Ala. [73.5% Black]7. Cleveland, Ohio [51% Black]8. Oakland, Calif. [35.7% Black, 21.9% Hisp., 15.2% Asian]9. Youngstown, Ohio [43.8% Black]10. Gary, Ind. [84% Black]11. Richmond, Calif. [36.1% Black, 26.5% Hisp., 12.3% Asian]12. Baltimore, Md. [64.3% Black]13. Memphis, Tenn. [61.4% Black]14. Trenton, N.J. [52.1% Black, 21.5% Hispanic]15. Richmond, Va. [57.2% Black]16. Kansas City, Mo. [31.2% Black, 6.9% Hispanic]17. Atlanta, Ga. [61.4% Black]18. Cincinnati, Ohio [42.9% Black]19. Washington, D.C. [60% Black, 7.9% Hispanic]20. North Charleston, S.C. [49.4% Black, 4% Hispanic]
SAFEST TWENTY
1. Brick, N.J. [95.8% White]2. Amherst, N.Y. [89.3% White]3. Mission Viejo, Calif. [83.2% White]4. Newton, Mass. [88.1% White]5. Troy, Mich. [82.3% White]6. Colonie, N.Y. [90.6% White]7. Irvine, Calif. [61.1% White, 29.8% Asian]8. Cary, N.C. [82.2% White]9. Greece, N.Y. [93.4% White]10. Coral Springs, Fla. [81.5% White]11. Thousand Oaks, Calif. [85.1% White]12. Orem, Utah [90.8% White]13. Round Rock, Texas [76.8% White]14. Dover, N.J. [93.6% White]15. Lake Forest, Calif. [76% White]16. Sterling Heights, Mich. [90.7% White]17. Simi Valley, Calif. [81.3% White]18. Roswell, Ga. [81.5% White]19. Lee’s Summit, Mo. [93.2% White]20. Broken Arrow, Okla. [85.3% White]Source: APhttp://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=10607
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Those stats on STL didn’t surprise me at all…after one time taking a wrong turn and winding up in East STL. That is by far the worst slum of any I have seen in this country, including Bedford-Stuyvesant. There are burned out buildings, trashed cars, garbage strewn about..it looks like a war zone.
Talk about ‘blight’ that is out of control…East STL is a perfect example of how bad blight can be…
Ian,
Wouldn’t the cities where there are many whites be wealhier, and the cities where there are a lot of minorities be poorer. Thus your race argument is confounded pretty seriously by the poverty/wealth variable — which I am pretty sure has much more explanatory power in accounting for crime than does race.
You really ought to take some social science classes sometime.
I don’t think I can change your mind, or your view on things, just felt it necessary to inject some other thoughts on the points you make above.
Of all the cities they study, Wichita wasn’t even on the list.
But about St. Louis. Yeah! They have a pretty big Metro area. Even though St. Louis proper is only 340,000 people (smaller than Wichita).
But case in point! St. Louis proper used to have a population of 860,000 back in the 1950’s. So it wasn’t like St. Louis was stagnated and the suburbs grew. St. Louis rapidly lost population and still does.
Once the United States rightly ended segregation and passed the Civil Rights Act, the white flight begin to happen.
Kansas own Johnson County is a product of massive white flight from Kansas City Proper.
In all honesty. We need to really stop defacto segregation and we need to find some wholesome solutions to race disparities. I’m not talking about forcing people to live together or anything, but we need to have serious dialogue to lay to rest all the racism and begin a harmonous communtity of living together.
Joe,
The only solution to racial strife is racial separation, period!
Steven Davis,
There are plenty of poor White in America and they commit crime at a far lower rate than negroes and non-white latinos. Low IQ and lack of impulse control and long range planning cause certain minorities to engage in criminal acts at far higher rates than Whites. Race and pathological behaviour are linked when it come to negroes, mullatoes and non-White latinos.
I am willing to listen IF you can come up with some cold hard facts rather than Boazian nonsense. I am probably far more open minded than are you.
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Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!
Ian, Steven is right. You could run those statistics in other places where there is poverty and find statistics that are similar.
This is why the economic policies that benefit all people not just the wealthiest in this country need to be adopted again.
It’s also a testament to racist policies here in the good old US of A and some truly problematic cultural realities in some minority groups that have persisted.
Where there is poverty, you will find crime.
I do not believe that it is only “wetbacks” and “negroes” that are causing all the crimes. I think that it is also the whites, just they arent getting caught because people dont want to blame white people. So thats what i think.
Eliz, nobody cares what Ian thinks.Ignore him.