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Most dangerous cities in the US

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QueBert said:
You can talk about them without appearing racist if you're not racist, pretty simple. The bottom line is it's due to poverty more than anything else. Those are some of the shittiest places to live in America. It's no surprise shitholes breed crime and violence. Minorities tend to be the ones who are poor, big surprise there.
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Ahh, victimization attitude again. There are a bunch of successful black people such as Justice C. Thomas, General C. Powell, Secretary C. Rice, and so on. They did not born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Must be something else, let see... like hard work, dedication, more hard work, and did not blame everything under the sun on whities.

Not ALL minorities are the same. Certain groups are more "civilized" and much more successful than others. Don't group ALL minorities as the same. Everyone know this.
 
Svnla said:
Ahh, victimization attitude again. There are a bunch of successful black people such as Justice C. Thomas, General C. Powell, Secretary C. Rice, and so on. They did not born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Must be something else, let see... like hard work, dedication, more hard work, and did not blame everything under the sun on whities.

Not ALL minorities are the same. Certain groups are more "civilized" and much more successful than others. Don't group ALL minorities as the same. Everyone know this.
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I didn't say shit about black people, I said minorities...
 
I didn't look at the list yet but I'm going to guess number one is Detroit?


Edit: No St Louis I was wrong
 
QueBert said:
What exactly did you look at? OP posted the list, it's approximately 10 lines long, not very much reading involved. St Louis was #1, Detroit was #3
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I immediately scrolled to the bottom before I saw the list. Wanted to make a guess before I looked
 
St. Louis #1?

That's a bunch of crap. I lived nearby there several years ago. Sure there are bad areas of St. Louis but that's the same for all cities. East St. Louis, IL was far far worse. Same for French Village, IL. Those are cities you don't stop at the lights, you just go to get out as fast as you can.
 
QueBert said:
I didn't say shit about black people, I said minorities...
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That's why I also said DO NOT group ALL minorities in the same token. Some minorities believe in hard work and move up instead the same ole crap "whities fault/poverty/everyone fault but not me."

BTW, I have been in the forum for a while. You and classy are notorious, blame everything under the sun instead of asking certain minority group to take responsibility for their well being.

Also, Blahblah broke down the demographics of the top 10 most dangerous cities. Tell me, what do these cities have in common?
 
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OCGuy said:
OC coming in with 3 of the safest......as usual.
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What's really interesting is that they're all literally right next to each other and Irvine is right next to Santa Ana which is the armpit of the OC. The 55 must have like a ghetto barrier built in keeping it all out.
 
Svnla said:
That's why I also said DO NOT group ALL minorities in the same token. Some minorities believe in hard work and move up instead the same ole crap "whities fault/poverty/everyone fault but not me."

BTW, I have been in the forum for a while. You and classy are notorious, blame everything under the sun instead of asking certain minority group to take responsibility for their well being.

Also, Blahblah broke down the demographics of the top 10 most dangerous cities. Tell me, what do these cities have in common?
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I didn't say all minorities, Christ. I know people from all ethnic background who work hard. And at the same time a few miles from where I live there's a big population of Asian gang members, I'm pretty sure they're a minority group and I'm pretty sure they don't give 2 fucks about moving up. It's never 100% one way or the other. A minorities drive to be successful is heavily influenced by where they grew up. Some places are simply not conducive to instilling any hope in a person. Sure there are exceptions, but you cannot use an exception as the "see it's possible!"
 
Where the hell is Jackson, MS? WTF do they have to do to earn a place in the top 10 most dangerous?

When I lived there, the mayor used to destroy private property with sledgehammers and the nightly news was an action movie.
 
Schadenfroh said:
Where the hell is Jackson, MS? WTF do they have to do to earn a place in the top 10 most dangerous?

When I lived there, the mayor used to destroy private property with sledgehammers and the nightly news was an action movie.
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If you click on the full list link in my op, Jackson MS is #14.

I saw that story about the mayor with the hammer on WSJ print edition. IIRC, he was saying to catch drug dealers.
 
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busydude said:
Thanks for the warning, any specific areas that I should be NOT strolling into? Other than the obvious East St. Louis that is.
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Anything north of Delmar and east of Skinker is likely to get you shot, except possibly on a nice Sunday afternoon. If you're west of Skinker or south of I-64 (what all the local yokels call "40"), you should be good to go. The rest of the city is pretty spotty, but the suburbs are generally fine (with the possible exception of a couple spots in University City just north of the Loop). Oh, and don't ever go to the Grand Metro station - I got pissed on last time I was there while walking down the stairs.

The real reason St. Louis earned the #1 ranking is because it has a strange political demarcation from the rest of the metro area. There is a rigid boundary between it and immediately bordering suburbs. The boundary was drawn around 1900 to keep Forest Park inside the city limits for the 1904 World's Fair. The city of St. Louis is also its own county (St. Louis City), comprised of about 350,000 people, while all of the suburbs on the Missouri side are within St. Louis County, comprised of about 2.2 million people. Since almost all of the crime for the entire county is centered within the city limits of St. Louis, the crime per capita is insanely high, while the surrounding area is extremely safe (I think the metro area was around 147 in the national rankings). Still, the bad parts of St. Louis are worse than the worst parts of any other city I've been to, including Detroit, and the numbers would be even worse if not for some creative accounting by the city cops (for example, the guy who "killed himself" by shooting himself in the head, then setting his car on fire with gasoline, then throwing the gas can 100 yards away, or the "victimless drive-by"). Where else can you get killed in a drive-by shooting when leaving a funeral for a drive-by victim, as happened here back in ~2007 (can't find the article because looking for "St. Louis" and "drive-by" gets way too many hits).
 
QueBert said:
BlahBlahYouToo, apparently you don't limit your hatred to overweight people. Maybe you can pull up more statistics that prove the top 10 most unsafe cities are also unsafe due to the % of obesity.
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i'm confuzzled. where did i display any hatred?
i didn't even make a comment. i quoted stats, nothing more.
 
Schadenfroh said:
Where the hell is Jackson, MS? WTF do they have to do to earn a place in the top 10 most dangerous?

When I lived there, the mayor used to destroy private property with sledgehammers and the nightly news was an action movie.
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Jackson MS

* Black alone - 129,609 (70.3%)
* White alone - 50,679 (27.5%)
* Hispanic - 1,451 (0.8%)
* Asian alone - 1,045 (0.6%)
* Two or more races - 1,113 (0.6%)
* American alone - 213 (0.1%)
* Other race alone - 128 (0.07%)
* Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 18 (0.01%)

Jackson: $31,977
Mississippi: $37,790
 
lxskllr said:
Baltimore got 11th. Not too bad, but it used to be higher. That was MD's only entry.
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Baltimore MD

# Black alone - 398,748 (62.6%)
# White alone - 195,467 (30.7%)
# Hispanic - 17,014 (2.7%)
# Asian alone - 12,601 (2.0%)
# Two or more races - 10,633 (1.7%)
# American alone - 1,622 (0.3%)
# Other race alone - 621 (0.10%)
# Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 212 (0.03%)

Baltimore: $40,313
Maryland: $70,545
 
the thing about troubled cities is that they are troubled for sprawling, complicated, and multifaceted reasons. Statistics like this are often misleading, and can contribute to widespread misconceptions.

to view it as narrowly as "poverty" or "race/racism" is not just extremely naive, it counteracts the efforts of everyone who works to improve things.

So let's check the armchair sociology at the door, mmmkay?
 
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