America's unsafest cities

chadtm80 · #1 Postby **chadtm80** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:18 pm

These cities have the highest crime rates in the country.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) -- Working with data provider On Board, we looked for the cities in America that had the most reported crimes per 1,000 citizens. This list only includes cities with a population of at least 300,000, of which 56 are listed in the FBI's crime statistics. (Not all cities report crime statistics every year.) Figures are from data for 2001, the latest year available. These statistics are for the specific municipalities mentioned as defined by the FBI and do not include suburbs or other outlying areas.

See cities with the lowest crime rates.

City State population Crimes per 1,000
St. Louis Missouri 350,336 1 50.2
Atlanta Georgia 426,511 122.4
Kansas City Missouri 444,267 112.5
Tampa Florida 311,310 111.9
Memphis Tennessee 655,898 99.8
Tucson Arizona 503,461 98.8
Columbus Ohio 712,748 96.2
Baltimore Maryland 660,826 96.1
Miami Florida 371,863 94.9
Detroit Michigan 956,283 94.3
Dallas Texas 1,215,553 91.3
Nashville Tennessee 555,059 90.4
Oklahoma City Oklahoma 507,517 90.4
Albuquerque New Mexico 451,098 87.7
Toledo Ohio 3 14,183 86.3
Cincinnati Ohio 331,880 83.8
San Antonio Texas 1,170,622 82.4
Seattle Washington 572,345 80.5
Portland Oregon 537,081 80.4
Fresno California 435,600 79.6
Charlotte North Carolina 636,459 78.2
Washington Columbia 571,822 77.0
Phoenix Arizona 1,366,542 76.8
Milwaukee Wisconsin 601,229 76.1
Omaha Nebraska 390,456 75.6
Tulsa Oklahoma 394,125 74.5
New Orleans Louisiana 484,289 74.5
Fort Worth Texas 546,828 74.0
Sacramento California 414,582 74.0

#2 Postby **coriolis** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:23 pm

It appears that the heartland is going down hill.
Where's New York, Philly, DC, & Sin City (LA)

JQ Public · #3 Postby **JQ Public** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:24 pm

Yay...raleigh is one of the safer big cities

chadtm80 · #4 Postby **chadtm80** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:27 pm

I got that right off of CNN just so you know... I should of said that

Skywatch_NC · #5 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 7:35 pm

Well, looks like my native Cincinnati isn't safe anymore... :o

JQ Public · #6 Postby **JQ Public** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 7:37 pm

Yeh they've had alotta race relation problems down there...maybe that could be the reason for the problems in Cincinnati

Miss Mary · #7 Postby **Miss Mary** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:36 pm

Sky - no, Cincy isn't as safe as it used to be. I'm sure they looked at the city of Cincinnati and not surrounding suburbs (outside city limits). Downtown is a ghost town sometimes I hear. People think twice about going down there now. Didn't used to be that way. Just recently a man was shot in Over the Rhine (our worst inner city area) and others cheered. It's all caught on tape. Police think that community is just out of control. And remember our riots, just 2 years ago.

All very sad. And we just demolished Cinergy Field, are wrapping things up on the new Reds Ballpark. Not to mention our nearly new Football Stadium (for the "Bungals!"). So somethings are changing, but the inner city poor neighborhoods are not. Those residents want change and honestly, I don't blame them. Heck, we can only take in one Reds game a season - it's easily over $100 just for the four of us to go. Outrageous. Our city's money would be better spent fixing up the rundown neighborhoods and schools.

JQ Public - quick edit, just saw your post. The problems are so complex and nothing seems to get done. I for one am not racist, do not encourage that at all. When I had children I wanted to instill them a love and respect for all people and guess what, it turns out that was the easiest thing to accomplish. If you leave kids alone, they are not racist (watch kids play at a park, they don't mind if another kid is different from them they just want to play). Sadly, it seems generation after generation perpetuates racists views. Disgusting, if you ask me. I'm all for change (I'm white by the way).

breeze · #8 Postby **breeze** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:45 pm

Aw, c'mon.....don't ya'll wanna come to Nashville?
LoL....

Even though it's the "home of country music", you should see
the 10pm news, every night! Crime is rampant. My friends and I
used to pile up and go play music in Nashville, but, jeeez... nobody
wants to go, anymore!

JQ Public · #9 Postby **JQ Public** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:11 pm

Don't worry miss mary. There need to be more people like to make everyone just get along! This thing just doesn't go away as fast as it may seem to come on...but we are getting better in some aspects.

#10 Postby **wx247** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 10:31 pm

Kansas City and St. Louis towards the top. Man... who would have ever guessed? :roll:

#11 Postby **bfez1** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:24 am

I knew New Orleans was a city to worry about. We have a very large port here and we are under very tight security right now.

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