Stockton? How did Stockton get hooked in with this bunch?
Could be.......illegals.
Tulsa? Really? I mean are the the remnants of the Native American tribes on the war path again?
The same way the others did; the per 100,000 population metric.
Those are cold and impersonal. There are one or two deaths daily, many "stolen car" wrecks/deaths, shootings, dui, or "unsolved."
Stockton has gotten really bad over the years.
Methamphetamine. Central Valley is essentially destroyed.
Stockton has two major freeways and a split off freeway going to San Francisco where a lot of trucking is routed throughout the West Coast, a major railway yard for more freight handling, and an inland sea port. Now add in at least five major gangs, drug trans-shipment along those same corridors, stir, add an economy that had Stockton and Detroit seesawing for the right to the "Foreclosure Capital of the US" titile for over five years, and you might gain some insight as to how Stockton wound up on that list, and, in fact, once lead it.