OT: Most Dangerous Cities
Michigan has the top 2. Yikes. I remember when Gary, Ind, and Camden, NJ seemed to be the top 2 every year.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112804/most-dangerous-cities-247
Whats important is us up here in Sagnasty found a way to earn our way off the top 10 and If I'm not mistaken we even dropped out of the top 30 as well.
We movin up in the state. Pretty soon we'll be just an average city.
still have the needed 100k people to make the list, if so, it is a positive move
oh yeah.....i forgot about that.
Well based on that thought I am willing to admit we are more than likely under 100,000.
Per wikipedia, Saginaw was down to 51,508 residents in the last census.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saginaw,_Michigan
Flint (pop. 102,434) won't be on these rankings much longer, it seems. It lost over 20,000 residents in the past decade.
As for Gary and Camden, mentioned in the OP, neither has 100K residents.
When I looked at some recent rankings for most dangerous cities in the US with more than 50k people, Detroit, Saginaw, and Flint were all in the top 5.
Being also from the 'Naw, I was disappointed not to see us on the list. It's kind of a catch-22: I mean, if we hadn't killed so many of our people, we would probably have a high enough population to be counted.
I am actually pretty surprised to a city from Connecticut in the top 10.
Have you ever been to New Haven? And I don't mean downtown or on Yale's campus...
No. I've just heard rich stereotypes about Connecticut so it surpised me to see a city from there.
Piece of advice: Don't apply stereotypes to all members of any group. Maybe don't apply stereotypes at all, but sometimes they're pretty accurate. However, they're never 100% accurate.
Stereotype example: It's always sunny in Los Angeles. This is a stereotype. It's sunny in LA a high percentage of the time, more than most cities. However, if someone says, "I'm surprised to hear it rained in LA because I heard stereotypes about Los Angeles that it was always sunny there." See how that sounds a little ridiculous? About as ridiculous as you believing that everyone in Connecticut is rich simply because it's one of the wealthiest states in the country. Even the nice states have their bad areas.
Is it lonely up there on your pedestal?
it was always sunny in Philadelphia.
The city has one of the ten highest rates for three of the four types of violent crime identified by the FBI.You can say a lot of things about Detroit, but at least they're not rapists.
Posted yesterday, but the stats for Detroit are really quite dated... population is about 200,000 lower and the unemployment is far higher.
Wait, 24/7 Wall St. isn't a trusted source of social science miscellany?!?
/sets fire to collected grad school term papers
nice to see AA had zero murders and pretty low violent crime in general.
I grew up just outside Flint and when G.M. left, it destroyed everything. Now, the city can't afford to pay police and it's a law-less town. Hell, the city police won't even go to the north end at night unless it's a murder, they just blow it off until morning.
Flint is down to like only 70 patrol officers.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a lawless town. I live in the city and the police have come every time I've called. (It's still ridiculous how many times I've had to call... about 5 times in 5 years for various things) However, I live in one of the last decent neighborhoods. I wouldn't doubt your claim about not going into the north end at all.
Let me re-phrase that, certain parts of Flint are lawless, and I know because I've been there at night. I have a friend who's a police officer( or was) and he started out on 3rd shift in the East Side (training), and when he was assigned to the north end, he quit. He told me some stories that I didn't even think were possible.
It's frightening to think what Flint would be if it didn't have a U-M campus. That's at least one lifeline for the city.
Thank you.
suck it flint and detroit, st. louis has gone from first to third! haha!
In all seriousness - these studies are always skewed. For one, I have seen the wire. So I know how policing bodies can skew the stats.
Second - measurements such as "crime per 1,000 residents" hurts cities like St. Louis. In our fine city, there is population of about 300K. But the sourround area ("MSA" - Metro Stat Area) is one of the five largest in the midwest (believe it's around 3 million people. So because we have densely populated suburbs that are easily accessible to the crime ridden, loosely populated downtown - we always get fucked.
That being said, some kid was shot and killed outside of my loft last year. So.... yeah... still not safe.
Detroit is similar to St. Louis, just on a larger scale. Both cities don't have any nice parts of town to bring the stats down, because all the decent-to-nice parts of town aren't technically in the city.
Compare this to Los Angeles - LA has far more murders than Detroit, and if you used the MSA data, would possibly be on this list since high crime areas like Compton, Inglewood, Carson, Long Beach, and about 10 more, aren't technically in Los Angeles proper, and City of LA actually includes a number of nice areas like Century City, Westwood, Bel Air, Brentwood, a number of nice areas of the Valley (Sherman Oaks, Encino, Studio City, etc) that bring up the population a lot but don't contribute to the crime.
That's why these lists are worthless, because how a city's lines are drawn make more difference than anything else.
The "don't have any nice parts of town" is being used in a general sense, I hope. Because I live in Detroit. In a large community that hasn't experienced a murder in years. It's quite nice.
I'm saving my indignation and giving you the benefit of the doubt.
In all seriousness - these studies are always skewed. For one, I have seen the wire. So I know how policing bodies can skew the stats.
Watching The Wire to gleam insight into how our nation's police forces operate is a rather questionable strategy.
I tend to disagree. The Wire is one show that I would actually believe. It's not based on Hollywood hype. If you don't believe how damned real The Wire is/was, please immediately grab David Simon's book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" and digest it. Or "The Corner". David Simon was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. He knows Baltimore. HBO's The Wire and The Corner - as well as NBC's Homicide series (some of the best network TV I have ever witnessed in the mid-90's) are all largely based on Simon's books/reporting. He has real Baltimore police working as consultants, writers, and actors on his shows. I'm sure they took creative liberties at times, but I also trust that many of themes portrayed on Simon's shows are based in sad reality. Big city politics are ugly, messy, and depressing, and David Simon knows how to portray it better than anyone.
with Simon, where either he or the interviewer mentions how criminals were caught on wire taps talking about strategies from the show and some of them had adapted the idea of tossing "burners"?
....I just came back an re-read my earlier post. I didn't intend for it to sound so smarmy (e.g., g*d-damnit jmblue, just read "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and you will understand how real The Wire is!). Not the tone I intended.
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Possible suicide attempt. Regardless, I hope that he works through his issues and comes out of the past few years a stronger person.
Was posted as thread and very quickly deleted by a quick-fingered mod.
Decency.
Thankfully.
I live in Flint. We made the top of the list this time around. A big part of that, though, was the serial stabber from last year. That guy stabbed a ton of people. Not saying the rest of the crime in the city isn't terrible and out of control. I'm jealous of Thomas Rawls now for getting out!
Don't forget about all of the structure fires after they laid of some of the fire dept.
Most Definitely, my friend's uncle was one of his victims. That was a crazy time for sure, and os definitely one of the reasons its ranked so high.
mos eisley spaceport has dropped off the list, that place was a f**king wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Sometimes I forget just how racist people can be when it is anonymous - those comments on the Yahoo article are scary considering at least some of those people are gainfully employed and probably rather "nice" people in public.
All that said, the numbers don't surprise me. I do think some of the rankings are skewed by perception - Detroit isn't great by any means, but I also think it is better than the perception articles like this paint of it.
Camden , NJ is a down right scary place at day or night. It reminds me of the movie Judgement Night .
Also you can pretty much add any city in NJ to the list. My friend has a shirt that has a handgun on the front and on the back it says " Welcome to Trenton " DUCK!
Any city in NJ? No doubt there are some rough areas of Jersey, but there are also some extremely nice areas as well. Most of my friends at UM from NJ - not from high crime cities. I'm not from NJ, but I'm guessing cities like Keyport, Morristown and Rockaway aren't very high in violent crime, only because I know kids from those cities.
Morristown is actually only about 10 minuntes from Camden and is one of the wealthiest cities in the country. Camden is one of the poorest and the most dangerous. There was a 60 minutes about it a few years back (actually about a non profit I worked for in Camden). New Jersey has seemingly given up on Camden and the common feeling among the surrounding communities is that it is a lost cause. It is very sad because that city has so much potential,
The majority, 90%, of NJ. Is beautiful. The bad areas are in pockets like Camden and Newark. Parts of jersey city and Elizabeth and such. I grew up there and from 1964-1989 when I left, we never locked our doors on our houses or cars. The schools are great and it has great history dating to before the Revolutionary War. Unfortunately the perception is that it sucks. It's made fun of in movies and TV by people who don't know better and those views have become reality.
List from worst to best:
Ypsi
Canton
Brighton
Bellville
Jackson
(I know, very RCMB, but I didn't start it)
Ypsi, Jackson, Bellville, Canton, Brighton.
Admittedly, I don't know a lot about Bellville.
Disagree about ypsi. There are some really nice areas of ypsi especially around depot town around the Huron.
Rockford at number 9 is bizzare. I mean, I get why since there is absolutely nothing to do in that town, but it doesn't feel like it belongs on a list with St. Louis and Detroit.
I went to Kettering for 9 semesters. Not one of those went by without someone getting mugged, most of the time at gunpoint. It was only a matter of time before that city got the recognition it deserves.
The architecture is what sticks out to me, too. The older skyscrapers and churches are awesome, but it extends all the way down to the residential areas. Just driving past some of those neighborhoods, you know they used to be gorgeous back in the day.
is gorgeous, but right outside the core....its turns too ghetto.