2010 City Crime Rankings

[bluegoose]

Here is the list from highest crime rates to lowest.

http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010/City_crime_rate_2010-2011_hightolow.pdf

Some surprises:

Salt Lake (#105) with more violent crimes than Bakersfield (123) or Fresno (133).

South Bend (68) higher than Las Vegas(76).

Redding, CA (178), my current home town, is higher than Fairfield, CA (220), the town I grew up in.

[KillerDog]

Camden, NJ is always in the top 5. I got into a series of altercations there as a youngster. Sometimes it pays to play hoop in rough neighborhoods, sometimes it doesn't.

[RobinFinderson]

Interesting. St. Louis doesn't spring to mind when I think about problems with crime. Of course that is a better reflection of my ignorance about the Midwest than it is anything else. The Midwest is just this vast part of the country to which I have zero cultural ties, and thus no real understanding. Good luck people of St Louis. I hope you figure out how to solve your problems.

[SteelBlue]

Redding, CA (178), my current home town, is higher than Fairfield, CA (220), the town I grew up in.

It's been a very different year here hasn't it? We've had all of our cars broken into in the past couple of months (nothing stolen). All of my neighbors have had the same treatment with many of the single mothers on my street having middle of the day attempted break ins. I've had the ghetto bird circle my neighborhood more times this year than in the 12 years prior combined. Nothing violent, just lots of theft.

[pellegrino]

Interesting. St. Louis doesn't spring to mind when I think about problems with crime. Of course that is a better reflection of my ignorance about the Midwest than it is anything else. The Midwest is just this vast part of the country to which I have zero cultural ties, and thus no real understanding. Good luck people of St Louis. I hope you figure out how to solve your problems.

St. louis is bad, really bad. It's main problem is the lack of funds from property taxes. With the white flight of the 60s and 70s, entire blocks of housing were abandoned, thus decreasing its tax base and increasing the number of poor, blighted neighborhoods, particularly in the north side of the city. It's an independent city, so it receives no tax funds from the county, which has a large, wealthy tax base. With a limited tax base, the city will always be strapped for cash.

The architect in you might appreciate this site, which offers virtual tours of the fine houses and buildings that still exist in blighted areas (and others that are not blighted) and the now vacant city blocks that have been bulldozed.

http://www.builtstlouis.net/

[Goatnapper'96]

I would like to orient the readers to the municipalities ranked #383 and #385!

HAIL TO THEE OH SIMI HIGH SCHOOL
WE'LL BE EVER TRUE!
TO YOUR HONORS AND TRADITIONS
ALL OUR WHOLE LIFE THROUGH!

You got somethin to steal? Go "over the hill."

Die TO. Your best and brightest find the blighted intellectual wasteland of Utah County, Utah a more attractive option.

Die.

[Goatnapper'96]

St. louis is bad, really bad. It's main problem is the lack of funds from property taxes. With the white flight of the 60s and 70s, entire blocks of housing were abandoned, thus decreasing its tax base and increasing the number of poor, blighted neighborhoods, particularly in the north side of the city. It's an independent city, so it receives no tax funds from the county, which has a large, wealthy tax base. With a limited tax base, the city will always be strapped for cash.

The architect in you might appreciate this site, which offers virtual tours of the fine houses and buildings that still exist in blighted areas (and others that are not blighted) and the now vacant city blocks that have been bulldozed.

http://www.builtstlouis.net/

But it has exceptional authentic bar-b-q and Italian in the same city. That has gotta count for something!

Apparantly, the business environment sucks ass. I spent an hour at Fat Toney's consuming copious amounts of well seasoned and smoked swine products. Fat Toney himself, the man they myth, came out and visted with me about the asinine business environment. I did my best to encourage him to relocate to Pocatello, Idaho. He looked at me funny and asked "Would I need a green card to go there?!"

[cougjunkie]

Oakland, CA- 5
Richmond, CA- 6
Vallejo, CA- 33

I lived in all 3 cities growing up.

[Flystripper]

I love how all the cities in IL with the exception of Rockford did not report data....nothing to see here folks nothing to see here.

[Goatnapper'96]

I love how all the cities in IL with the exception of Rockford did not report data....nothing to see here folks nothing to see here.

That is because Rockford has a dude who owns a tank enforcing the law!

[pellegrino]

But it has exceptional authentic bar-b-q and Italian in the same city. That has gotta count for something!

Apparantly, the business environment sucks ass. I spent an hour at Fat Toney's consuming copious amounts of well seasoned and smoked swine products. Fat Toney himself, the man they myth, came out and visted with me about the asinine business environment. I did my best to encourage him to relocate to Pocatello, Idaho. He looked at me funny and asked "Would I need a green card to go there?!"

and it does. St. Louis is a great place, even though their baseball team sucks.

It's kind of a vicious cycle that a lot of cities have seen, but the independent city thing exacerbates it because their ability to attract businesses is diminished. Who wants to put a major operation in a city that doesn't have good transportation resources, has a lot of crime (including one of the top murder rates) and has no friends in the state legislature because they're a minority dominated city? I feel for St. Louis, it was once the premier city west of the Appalachians and it's fallen very, very low.

[Donuthole]

Ogden significantly further down the list than SLC.

[il Padrino Ute]

Dayton is in the Top 20. Congrats, YO!

[TheAzzuri]

I wonder how the rankings would change if all crimes were actually reported.

[Indy Coug]

I wonder how the rankings would change if all crimes were actually reported.

Orem would be screwed, chewed and tattooed.