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    Law & Order - Crime Violence Cities - The 25 Most Dangerous Cities In America

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    Anmargaret Warner, Erin Fuchs and Gus Lubin Jun. 13, 2013, 12:08 PM

    The 25 Most Dangerous Cities In America
    Law & Order More: Crime Violence Cities FBI

    (Flint, Michigan is the most dangerous city in the United States.)

    Violent crime rose in the U.S. in 2012 for the first time in six years, according to preliminary crime data released by the FBI. Business Insider analyzed the report to determine the cities with the most violent crime per capita. In the three years we have published this ranking, many cities have repeatedly made the list.

    From the decaying Rust Belt, Flint, Mich. emerged as the most dangerous city in 2012, 2011, and 2010, according to our analysis.

    Detroit, Mich., Oakland, Calif., and St. Louis, Mo. were also consistently among the most dangerous cities.

    To improve our ranking and understand its limitations, we consulted several experts.

    Click here to see the most dangerous cities >

    The main problem with the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, according to UCLA professor Mark Kleiman, is that some cities have broader boundaries and include safer, suburban areas in their crime reports. The center of the city might be crime-ridden, but the safer outskirts skew the overall picture.

    Another problem with the UCR is that different police precincts have different ways of classifying aggravated assault versus "simple assault," Carnegie Melon's Alfred Blumstein told us.

    Despite these problems, the UCR remains the definitive source of crime data in the U.S. "There is no perfect system, but this is best that we have," says criminal justice professor Tod Burke.

    Our preliminary 2012 ranking includes all cities with a population over 100,000. We compared the cities' rates of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, and robbery against 2011 national averages, with the percent deviations averaged to determine overall ranking for violent crime. We did not count aggravated assault due to inconsistent reporting of this crime.

    We have included a brief discussion of crime in each city and will add to it any useful insight or responses shared in the comment section or by email.
    Now with no further ado ...

    #25 Milwaukee, Wis.


    15 murders per 100,000 people
    38 forcible rapes per 100,000 people
    505 robberies per 100,000 people

    Milwaukee's police chief recently recently said 85% of the city's shootings involve "people with extensive criminal records shooting other people with extensive criminal records."

    Data provided by the FBI's preliminary 2012 unified crime report. The cities' murder (including nonnegligent manslaughter), rape, and robbery rates were compared against 2011 national averages, with the percent deviations averaged to determine overall ranking for violent crime.


    #24 Hartford, Conn.


    18 murders per 100,000 people
    22 forcible rapes per 100,000 people
    511 robberies per 100,000 people

    The streets of Hartford are "infested" with gangs, according to a 2009 internal police memo. Gangs continue to be a major part of the city, primarily in the realm of drug trafficking.

    Data provided by the FBI's preliminary 2012 unified crime report. The cities' murder (including nonnegligent manslaughter), rape, and robbery rates were compared against 2011 national averages, with the percent deviations averaged to determine overall ranking for violent crime.


    #23 Atlanta, Ga.


    19 murders per 100,000 people
    26 forcible rapes per 100,000 people
    521 robberies per 100,000 people

    Atlanta is a major drug trafficking hub on the East Coast. The city's extensive network of highways allows for easy distribution of cocaine and production of methamphetamine.

    Data provided by the FBI's preliminary 2012 unified crime report. The cities' murder (including nonnegligent manslaughter), rape, and robbery rates were compared against 2011 national averages, with the percent deviations averaged to determine overall ranking for violent crime.

    22. Minneapolis, Minn.



    10 murders per 100,000 people
    103 forcible rapes per 100,000 people
    440 robberies per 100,000 people


    While Minneapolis has largely gotten rid of its "Murderopolis" image, incidents of gun violence rose in 2012. The number of reported rapes is staggering, but there might be a good explanation for that: The head of the city's sex crimes unit says the city includes incest and statutory rape as "forcible rape."
    The FBI, on the other hand, doesn't include those types of rapes as "forcible rape." The Minneapolis Star Tribune suggested the city may have gotten more federal grant money by over-reporting its rapes.
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    1. Flint, Mi
    2. Detroit, Mi
    3. Oakland, CA
    4. Bridgeport, CT
    5. New Orleans, LA
    6. Cleveland, OH
    7. St Louis, MO
    8. Jackson, MS
    9. Baltimore, MD
    10. Newark, NJ
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    Oddly enough all of these cities have one thing in common. Can you guess what it is?

    If you said ‘Majority black’ population demographic, you’d be correct.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME View Post
    Oddly enough all of these cities have one thing in common. Can you guess what it is?

    If you said ‘Majority black’ population demographic, you’d be correct.
    It's also the reason our current welfare policies lead to disaster in these cities, it simply pays people to breed more gangs, imo/
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldguy View Post
    It's also the reason our current welfare policies lead to disaster in these cities, it simply pays people to breed more gangs, imo/
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    It's called 'communism' or a 'police state.' The results are the same over and over again..
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    The huge failure in these cities and across our country is liberalism unless we have a leader who is not afraid to address the root cause of our problems we will fail as a society.
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    Riding Along With the Cops in Murdertown, U.S.A.

    “Shots fired.” He gives the following description: A shadow wearing a hood.

    Flint is the birthplace of General Motors and the home of the U.A.W.’s first big strike.
    Riding Along With the Cops in Murdertown, U.S.A.

    Eric Smith for The New York Times
    Steve Howe patrols the mean streets in his Chevy cruiser.

    By CHARLIE LeDUFF

    Published: April 15, 2011

    A sign taped to the entrance of police headquarters says it all: “Closed weekends and holidays.” Every weekday, the doors are locked at dusk.



    It’s not that the cops here are scared; it’s just that they’re outmanned, outgunned and flat broke.

    Flint is the birthplace of General Motors and the home of the U.A.W.’s first big strike. In case you didn’t know this, the words “Vehicle City” are spelled out on the archway spanning the Flint River.

    But the name is a lie. Flint isn’t Vehicle City anymore. The Buick City complex is gone. The spark-plug plant is gone. Fisher Body is gone.

    What Flint is now is one of America’s murder capitals. Last year in Flint, population 102,000, there were 66 documented murders. The murder rate here is worse than those in Newark and St. Louis and New Orleans. It’s even worse than Baghdad’s.
    After the door is unlocked and I enter police headquarters, it is easy to see why. There are only six patrolmen on duty for a Saturday night. So broke is Flint that the city laid off two-thirds of its police force in the last three years. The front desk looks like a dusty museum piece.

    I am assigned to ride along with Officer Steve Howe, a 20-year-veteran of the department. Caucasian. Late 50s. Medium build. Mustache. Clump of very well-kempt salt-and-pepper hair.

    I sign a release form and am given a bulletproof vest.

    “Isn’t that a little bit much?” I ask the sergeant on duty.

    “You have to sign your life away,” he tells me.

    Cops can be a suspicious, insular lot when it comes to reporters. But Howe and the others are blunt and self-effacing. “We ain’t cops anymore,” Howe says. “We’re librarians. We take reports. We don’t fight crime.”

    He guides me through the yellowing jail cells upstairs that had to be closed down recently because of lack of manpower. “If you break into someone’s house, we can’t hold you,” he says with a straight face. “If you’ve got a weapon or you’ve murdered somebody, then county will take you. I don’t see any light at the end of this tunnel. Only darkness.”

    We leave headquarters and head out into the night. Howe turns up the heat in his Chevy cruiser and switches on the computer.

    “That’s something,” I say hopefully. “Some squad cars in Detroit don’t even have computers.”

    “Hold on a sec,” he says. “Let it warm up.”

    When it does, I see that there are more than 12 runs stacked up, including a kidnapping call that is more than six hours old. A home-invader call is two hours old. A “man with a gun” call is 90-minutes old.

    “Sometimes, we don’t get to a call for two days,” he says. Last fall, an elderly couple called after being held up at gunpoint in their driveway. The police arrived on the scene five hours later.

    Traffic tickets?

    “Don’t make me laugh,” he says.

    We drive 50 miles through the evening, and the city flashes by us in all its monotony. Liquor store. Gas station. Liquor store. Hi-C, 25 cents. Catfish steaks, $1.25. Regular unleaded, $3.65.

    The action isn’t heavy tonight, either. Domestic disputes, mostly. A woman will not let her brother into the house, having already destroyed his furniture with a pipe and thrown his clothing into the snow. Another man has beaten his girlfriend and locked himself inside a neighbor’s house. Howe takes reports. The kidnapping call gathers dust.

    We pass by an abandoned Victorian with a sign neatly spray-painted on the peeling door: “Please don’t burn.”

    “Sorry, slow night,” Howe apologizes. “Last weekend we had four murders.”
    Nature calls. Howe pulls into the 7-Eleven for a toilet break and a Big Gulp. As we get out of the car, I see a blue flash of light near the side of the store and the sound of gunfire. A shadow runs toward the apartment complex.
    “Back in the car!” Howe barks at me.

    Someone might have just become the 14th homicide victim of 2011, and winter hasn’t even broken yet.

    Howe calls in: “Shots fired.” He gives the following description: A shadow wearing a hood. And in less than two minutes, the entire Flint police force on patrol swarms the area. All six of them. They find no gun and no victim. They do, however, round up a fidgety kid in a hood, but since he doesn’t have a gun, they kick him loose.

    Frustrated, Howe heads back to the car and watches the kid walk away. Two more people are killed in Flint the following week.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/ma...re-t.html?_r=0
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