The most dangerous cities in America, 2013 (Flint #1)

Yahoo/24-7wallst.com ^ | 6-18-2013 | Samuel Weigley, Alexander E. M. Hess and Michael B. Sauter

[Darren McCarty]

After falling for five consecutive years, the number of violent crimes across the United States rose by 1.2% in 2012. Based on data published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the increase was even greater in some of America’s largest cities. In 2012, for the third year in a row, Flint, Michigan had the highest violent crime rate in the country.

According to the FBI, violent crime includes murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In some cases, the cities with the highest violent crime rate, including Flint and Oakland, had high rates in all four categories. However, most of the most violent cities tend to do very poorly only in a few categories.

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1. Flint, Mich.
> Violent crimes per 100,000: 2,729.5
> Population: 101,632
> 2012 murders: 63
> Poverty rate: 40.6%
> Percentage of adults with high school degree: 82.9%

With a staggering 2,729.5 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, no city had a higher violent crime rate than Flint. The city of just 101,632 people had 63 total murders and 1,930 aggravated assaults, both the highest relative to the city’s population. Flint also had nationwide highs in burglary rates and arson per 100,000 people. The sheriff of Genesee County, where Flint is located, proposed a plan to create a violent crime mobile response unit that would cost $3 million. However, Governor Rick Snyder rejected the plan because he believed resources would be better “integrated into the ongoing efforts to make Flint safer.” Like Detroit, Flint has suffered economically in recent years. The median household income was just $23,380 in 2011, the second-lowest of all 555 cities measured by the U.S. Census Bureau.

[Dick Bachert]

The citizens in 23 states honor the Second Amendment and have either open or concealed carry.

80% of the violent crimes occur in the other 27.

If there’s a message there, obama and biden missed it.

Or did they??

[BwanaNdege]

“Makes me wonder where Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, and Houston, TX are? It must be something about the way crime stats are reported.”

Some statistics count the whole metro area, others just the city limits.

Atlanta’s population within the city limits has ranged between 400K and 500K since as far back as 1960.

Include the inner suburbs and that number has risen from 800K to 1.5M since 1960.

Add the “Urbanized area (area of continuous development” and that has increase from an additional 330K to 2.6M, giving a total of over 4 Million.

Crimes per 100K, based on City Limits, are horrendous. If you switch to the “Urbanized Area”, the rate drops considerably.

Guess which one the City Fathers want to use?

http://www.demographia.com/db-atl1960.htm

[ScottinVA]

Congrats to Flint and Detroit! Isn’t progressive municipal governance great?

[cripplecreek]

Bad as they are, I can't help but wonder how the stats break down in Detroit and Flint in regards to justified shootings. Both are open carry cities and its hard to get a true breakdown. I know Detroit has a justifiable homicide rate some 2200% higher than the national average. Think about it, a Boston Bomber is being listed as a shooting victim.



Michigan legislative action thread

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cripplecreek, and good points.

[cripplecreek]

Turns out that Bloomberg’s group has named several murderers killed by police as victims of gun violence.