Cities ranked by serious crime rate

[Fatman]

I've got a question that actually points out a flaw in this ranking:

Minneapolis is 48th and St. Paul is 102.  In reality these two cities, plus a handful of others within the 494/694 loop (I-94 metro area) are really just one big city.  To way that St. Paul is that much safer than Minneapolis ignores that some areas of Minneapolis are safer than others, and that some areas of St. Paul are actually as bad as the worst area in northern Minneapolis.

Anyway, even with the flaw, both these cities are in the bad zone!

It's based on stats reported to the FBI, so those areas must report separately.

[Rob10ring]

Unlike Mass just to the South, which did have multiple entries, We get CCW basicly for the asking in NH and Me. Vt. doesn't even have to ask.
So much for "common sense gun laws"   

…and the CCW laws. Not a lot of sense on that in California either. It goes along with all of the other nonsense that is mistaken for common sense around here. You'd think that CA's socialist experiment, having been proved to be a failure, would have been called off at this point. I did get a couple more former-antis to buy guns in the past year.

[McGyver]

Amazingly, my state never even made the list!   

[MikeBjerum]

It's based on stats reported to the FBI, so those areas must report separately.

I understand that, but what I was pointing out the flaw in "raw" number reports.  Minneapolis and St. Paul are separate cities, but they are one metropolitan location.  It would be better for a state to compile the numbers and then release them by regions or districts:  Minneapolis/St. Paul would be better reported as Mpls. downtown, St. Paul downtown, Metro NW, Metro NE, Metro SW and Metro SE.  To the outsider this would give a picture that residents and local law enforcement would recognize, and it would be truly informative to those outside.

Just my opinion on this type of ranking.

[Ulmus]

All right!  My home town is number 3!   

(Actually, my home town, Highland Park, is in the middle of Detroit and should be ranked higher.  We had people from the worst part of Detroit, Cass Corridor, move in only to move back becase it was "safer" there.  )

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[Badgersmilk]

Caly, MI, and WI...  Made QUITE a showing on that list!  All hard core democratic states aren't they???  Hmmm. 

[tombogan03884]

Caly, MI, and WI...  Made QUITE a showing on that list!  All hard core democratic states aren't they???  Hmmm. 

Funny how that works isn't it .
Just to show it's not a coincidence, Mass, NY , and NJ are well represented as well.

[TAB]

Caly, MI, and WI...  Made QUITE a showing on that list!  All hard core democratic states aren't they???  Hmmm. 

also notice how its the areas with the most population that make it on the list?  That has more to do with then anything else.

I bet if you also took all the citys on the list, and took them by % of the population thats below the poverty line, the list would be pretty close to the current one.

[Big Frank]

White people are a minority in Flint and Detroit, and I'm guessing the rest of the top 5 is too. Why is it that when there's a black majority everything goes downhill? Is it drugs? Or poverty? Any ideas?

[TAB]

Its not just blacks...

I think its really mind set.