Title: Detroit named most dangerous city
zeke11 - November 19, 2007 07:08 PM (GMT)
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DETROIT -- In another blow to the Motor City's tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation's most dangerous city, according to a private research group's controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics.
The study drew harsh criticism even before it came out. The American Society of Criminology launched a pre-emptive strike Friday, issuing a statement attacking it as "an irresponsible misuse" of crime data.
The 14th annual "City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America" was published by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc. It is based on the FBI's Sept. 24 crime statistics report.
The report looked at 378 cities with at least 75,000 people based on per-capita rates for homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. Each crime category was considered separately and weighted based on its seriousness, CQ Press said.
Last year's crime leader, St. Louis, fell to No. 2. Another Michigan city, Flint, ranked third, followed by Oakland Calif.; Camden, N.J.; Birmingham, Ala.; North Charleston, S.C.; Memphis, Tenn.; Richmond, Calif.; and Cleveland.
The study ranked Mission Viejo, Calif., as the safest U.S. city, followed by Clarkstown, N.Y.; Brick Township, N.J.; Amherst, N.Y.; and Sugar Land, Texas. |
ChainLink - November 19, 2007 08:06 PM (GMT)
So maybe that's why Kobe didn't sign off on the trade...Who wants to go from Orange County, CA (where Mission Viejo is located, the safest city according to this poll) to the most dangerous? :rolleyes:
pistonnick13 - November 19, 2007 11:20 PM (GMT)
Yeaaaa
FLINTTOWN REPPIN #3 SPOT!!!
haha, its sad, but not surprising. poor economy+bad mayors,governor=hell in these cities.
so i guess i just turned into a kwame hater.
Glyde - November 24, 2007 12:45 AM (GMT)
You want dangerous?Go spend time in the middle-east.
Wallace2X - November 28, 2007 08:47 PM (GMT)
I hope this will wake Detroit up and throw thung Kwame out as mayor he's one of the worst mayor's in America. Kwame needs to repay all that money on the cities credit cards plus that trip to Cal in 06 which Kwame wanted a reporter to be charged with a crime for looking into how much he was spending on the tax payers money DA in cal didn't press charges on the reporter.
I know this isn't all on Kwame but I think he isn't a fighter on crime spends to much money on the tax payers dime then flighting crime in Detroit. Kwame will be mayor until he retires he's the next Young. Detroit needs another Dennis as mayor he was a crime fighter and crime went down under his watch.
LeadingLady - November 29, 2007 05:56 PM (GMT)
thats crazy!!!! out of all the citys in the WOLE world detroit is the most dangerous!!! i hear ya!! how do you just point out one city when the whole world is messed up, you got people getting cut up in other parts of michigan but detroit is the most dangerous. i know that there is a lack of jobs,money, the mayor is acting a fool but i guess if there is a fool leading, follish things are going to happen
zeke11 - November 29, 2007 07:46 PM (GMT)
It's not the whole world it's the U.S.
When violent crimes happen in other parts of MI it's news, when it's in Detroit it's business as usual.
I used to defend Detroit as hard as anyone, but you can't put your blinders on when presented with hard core facts.
rep_ur_city - December 1, 2007 07:42 AM (GMT)
^I agree. It's so much more difficult to defend now a days, but call me crazy I still love this town. I would suspect that anyone who lives in a state of poverty would resort to crime and violence to support their families as well. I don't condone it but it's silly in my mind to expect ppl to just sit on their asses and act civilized when they've just been laid off and can't find work and the public school system is good for *shiznit...
That's a bigger issue tho. No one's given a fair chance. With the way the government is run now, ppl are born into a state of poverty. It's difficult now more than ever to find your way out of it.