Posted on 10/10/2023 8:37:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - WalletHub has named St. Louis the least safe city in America.
WalletHub compared 182 cities across three dimensions: 1) Home & Community Safety, 2) Natural-Disaster Risk, and 3) Financial Safety. They then evaluated the dimensions using 41 metrics graded on a 100-point scale, with 100 representing the highest level of safety. Among the metrics were assaults per capita, law-enforcement employees per capita, traffic fatalities per capita, earthquake risk level, unemployment rate, job security, and retirement plan access.
After the metrics were compiled, WalletHub ranked St. Louis 182nd with a score of 44.88. The city ranked 178th in home & community safety and 155th for financial safety.
St. Louis was tied for first with the most law enforcement employees per capita and ranked third fewest on hate crimes per capita. So far this year, the City of St. Louis has had around 20% fewer homicides compared to the same time last year.
Click here for the complete study and rankings.
And my son is a police officer in the county. In a way, he looks at it as a sort of mission to keep the crime and danger contained.
Is that worse than “least safe”?
Oh BS. The study says that San Diego is safer than Salt Lake City. That’s shyt if I’ve ever seen it.
Well, there was the big one back in 1811.
I once took a River road along the Mississippi and deliberately drove through East St Louis. Gave the kids a look at the “real” slums .
Of course, it was at 10 am. I was wanting to teach them, not endanger them.
And I pointed out every sign promoting the mayor.
It sounds like they are over-weighing the earthquake risk...
St. Louis gets most of its danger because of one part of its population and its small physical size. Street gangs pretty much live cheek by jowl next to each other, so there is constant warfare over turf.
And, of course having recently ‘enjoyed’ having a Soros-funded prosecutor who firmly believed in not punishing criminals didn’t help either.
Vote must have been done by a task group of combined Chicago and New York politicians.
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Surprise, surprise, surprise...
Crimes against whites are not classified as “hate crimes”, period.
Lotta competition for that title
Honky Lips couldn’t be reached for comment.
Wow! My hometown, St. Louis, beat out Memphis and Detroit too?
Don’t sell Philadelphia short.
Don’t bogart those ribs!
St. Louis unsafe? Yeah, right. Try East St. Louis! It’s even worse!
Per Wikipedia, in Saint Louis there have been fewer than 5 non Democrats in elective office mayor plus council - since 1950, and none this century.
East Saint Louis is in Illinois. I e heard the people in Saint Louis don’t go there off the highways.
Probably too small to be on the list.
But muh diversity....
Yeah, and the Cardinals sucked this year. What else is new? (Disclosure: I am a Cardinal fan and used to live in the western county.)
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