America's Most Dangerous Cities: 24/7 Wall St.

24/7 Wall St.:

Yesterday, the FBI trumpeted the news that violent crime dropped 5.5% in 2010 while reported property crimes fell 2.8% during the depths of the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. The news, though, is far from positive.

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Comments

[DefenseProducts]

09:47 AM on 05/31/2011

We need to get the jobless to start building our infrastructure! Where is the promise to build America's new green power sources, new railways, fix bridges? Where are all the much needed alternative energy startup companies? We have a LOT TO DO! Why aren't Americans being put to work? What are we waiting for?

[loki]

01:57 AM on 05/27/2011

Yup, good old St. Louie is showing at #3. I would have thought higher. You cant turn on the local news without the first 5 to 10 minutes being all about shootings, murders, break ins, arsons, and like today, an 18 month old beaten and tossed into a dumpster. Its a wonderful world we live in.
If people are killing and robbing each other, then the ivy greed capitalist are robbing and killing the people.
Somebody stop the world, I really want to get off now.

[blueken]

03:56 PM on 05/26/2011

Yeah, red state, blue state, blah, blah, blah. Guess we just lock em all up and throw away the key. Kind of an expensive option. Breaking up families, wasted lives, but oh well, it makes a good sound bite. Hey, if the top 2% get everything, then there will be nothing left to steal. That would drop the crime rate. But wait, didn't the great something up there in the great somewhere say "Judgement is mine, judge not less ye be judged"?

[Deep77]

02:03 PM on 05/26/2011

These cities have hit a downward spiral ever since we began subsidizing suburban sprawl. We've build highways that go through urban neighborhoods. Denied mortgages and investment in redlined neighborhoods, and rewarded companies that closed down plants that moved to business friendly places, including shipping jobs to China. A lot of these cities have to absorb the poor, because the suburbs pretty much made it illegal to be poor. Poverty has been zoned out in the wealthy suburbs.

However a lot of these cities have seen some revival. I have seen people with crazy ideas and the simple entrepreneurial spirit make things grow in places like Oakland and Detroit. People are creating urban farms, artist studios, and even tech companies.

[spoonerrothbard]

10:14 PM on 05/26/2011

Stockton has been a dump for the last 40 years. Thankfully I've only been alive for 28 of them.

[foreverdemocrat]

01:38 PM on 05/26/2011

Perhaps send some troops to the war zone that is Detroit, Michigan, perhaps? Domestic terrorists are far more omnimous than some schmuck on video, overseas.

My $.02

[spoonerrothbard]

10:15 PM on 05/26/2011

Posse commitatus.

[BadIdeas]

05:28 AM on 05/26/2011

All managed by (D)'s...

[Air Vice Marshal Park]

12:45 AM on 05/26/2011

Glad to see Baltimore get the recognition it deserves. If you fly into Baltimore, never leave the airport and fly right out on the next plane to anywhere. Don't even think of driving in Baltimore. If you take train through Baltimore, keep away from the windows.

[The Notorious PDF]

11:25 PM on 05/26/2011

As a Baltimore resident, I completely understand where you're coming from.

[dkinton49]

12:09 AM on 05/26/2011

It is well known that cities that have been run by Democrats for decades are the most dangerous. These cities hard large minority populations with poor educations (47% of adults in Detroit can not read well enough to fill out a job application) and a heavy reliance upon entitlements. Since LBJ the government has been training these people to vote Democratic with the promise that once in office, they would raise their entitlement pay!

[mcmutter]

05:18 AM on 05/26/2011

yes ... you're an intellectual /sarcasm/

[OutAtFirst]

10:24 AM on 05/26/2011

So how would you Republicans propose to improve these peoples' plight? By abolishing the minimum wage, slashing education funding, opposing family planning, repealing affirmative action? Face it, you and yours couldn't care less about the less fortunate, screw em, right?

[foreverdemocrat]

01:43 PM on 05/26/2011

The GOP has only one solution to the ills of the inner-cities: Lock 'em up.

They have none beyond that. Every policy proposal they initiate does nothing to advance the poor, unemployed, and undereducated.

[Max Shelby]

11:52 PM on 05/25/2011

Some cities avoided a deserved place on this list by not turning in their stats to the FBI data compilers.

Who was it?

According to this article for cities of 100,000 or more:

http://goo.gl/UD9r0

1. Birmingham, Alabama
2. Indianapolis
3. Several large (unnamed) Colorado cities

[Jim Biggs]

07:49 PM on 05/25/2011

overwhelmingly demo run cities..................whod a thunk

on another bit of news TEXAS DOMINATES in jobs and so do some other red states

http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/on-numbers/scott-thomas/2011/05/texas-adds-732800-jobs-in-10-years.html

[mcmutter]

05:19 AM on 05/26/2011

yes TexAss is a wunderland ....

[johnny g locker]

07:03 PM on 05/25/2011

A bunch of Obama voters (felons excluded) causing trouble for the res of us.

[supergenius02]

07:02 PM on 05/25/2011

Seems all the cities on the list are liberal Democratic Party strongholds. Imagine the horror of what would happen to the crime levels in this nation if the liberals ran everything.

[Max Shelby]

11:53 PM on 05/25/2011

Drink much tea do you?

[Janine547]

06:55 PM on 05/25/2011

Most of the cities are in Blue states, indicating the failed economic policies of the left. This is an issue of class, economic opportunity, parity in education, and unequal infrastructures. Until the playing field is leveled, crime will abound in low socioeconomic areas regardless of race. Sadly, the economic policies of the left has transformed America into the most economically stratified industrial nation.

[foreverdemocrat]

01:45 PM on 05/26/2011

Compared with the ENTIRE country that was run by a Republican for eight years?

...we see how that turned out, don't we...

[loki]

02:01 AM on 05/27/2011

I think that is the whole reason they had McCain Palin team for 08. THey wanted to lose so they could shift the blame to the democrats.

[JWerner]

06:38 PM on 05/25/2011

I happen to be a native resident of Stockton (been here all my life). There are some pretty cr@ppy parts of town, this much is certain. However, you could probably draw a line right through the middle of town, and a lot of the reported crimes would be south of that line, in the downtown area (which I consider to be everything south of the Calaveras River, which bisects the town).

There are a LOT of shabby neighborhoods and rundown areas in the downtown area, and it's also where most of our commercial and industrial areas are located, which affect property values, etc. The 'uptown' area is largely suburban housing, ranging from rather nice ones to somewhat shabby, ill-kept ones. The 'crime' for the uptown area seems mostly isolated to some well-known bad 'pockets' of crime (I can think of 2-3 right off the top of my head). So, Stockton is a mishmash of 'good' and 'bad' areas. I wouldn't recommend moving here unless you've got a job out-of-town. The unemployment rate SUCKS, as the article indicates.

[spoonerrothbard]

10:23 PM on 05/26/2011

This much is certain: there are some VERY wealthy people in Stockton (though most are moving out and building palatial estates in Acampo). I've done work for a number of them and have been in their houses. Spanos' property is ridiculous. However, the "good" areas are only "good" in relation to the other areas. I didn't fully appreciate this until I moved out of Stockton 3 years ago. South Stockton...if a foreigner passed through it they would question if they were in a civilized country (not that there aren't very compassionate and lovely people whom live there).

[JWerner]

10:32 PM on 05/26/2011

Yeah, South Stockton is something else. North Stockton and South Stockton are two completely different animals, and when people think of Stockton, they're usually thinking South Stockton, because that's the part of Stockton you see via the freeways (the 4-way 'intersect' of freeways is located in South Stockton).

Also, you are indeed correct in saying that there are a number of rather wealthy people in Stockton. There are several 'families' that hold a great deal of economic influence (Spanos being the most obvious, I think). I've done election canvassing in these nice neighborhoods. . .it's weird walking around them. You almost feel under-dressed or out of place in some way. There are a number of gated communities that cover a good deal of ground, and have cameras and private security.

[Peter Combs]

06:20 PM on 05/25/2011

gee looks like the Blue States have a problem getting along with themselves....all that Federal money and things get worse....