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Because my town, Reading, Pa. is the 41st most dangerous city in America (out of 400 ). Which is an improvement. Last year we were number 37.
Yippie kai yea motherfuckers.
Want to know where your town ranks? Go here.
MSNBC:
St. Louis tops list of most dangerous US cities
updated 11/21/2010
TRENTON, N.J. — St. Louis overtook Camden, N.J., as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009, according to a national study released Sunday.
The study by CQ Press found St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4. That helped St. Louis beat out Camden, which topped last year's list and was the most dangerous city for 2003 and 2004.
Detroit, Flint, Mich., and Oakland, Calif., rounded out the top five. For the second straight year, the safest city with more than 75,000 residents was Colonie, N.Y.
The annual rankings are based on population figures and crime data compiled by the FBI. Some criminologists question the findings, saying the methodology is unfair.
Greg Scarbro, unit chief of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, said the FBI also discourages using the data for these types of rankings.
Kara Bowlin, spokeswoman for St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, said the city actually has been getting safer over the last few years. She said crime in St. Louis has gone down each year since 2007, and so far in 2010, St. Louis crime is down 7 percent.
Erica Van Ross, spokeswoman for the St. Louis Police Department, called the rankings irresponsible.
"Crime is based on a variety of factors. It's based on geography, it's based on poverty, it's based on the economy," Van Ross said.
"That is not to say that urban cities don't have challenges, because we do," Van Ross said. "But it's that it's irresponsible to use the data in this way."
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Reading is no longer the poorest city in the country. We have moved to number six (when you're at the bottom you can only move up or start digging and since there are no shovel ready jobs. . .) That said, just like everywhere else, we have serious...
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And People Ask Me Why I Carry A Firearm
Because my town, Reading, Pa. is the 41st most dangerous city in America (out of 400 ). Which is an improvement. Last year we were number 37.
Yippie kai yea motherfuckers.
Want to know where your town ranks? Go here.
MSNBC:
St. Louis tops list of most dangerous US cities
updated 11/21/2010
TRENTON, N.J. — St. Louis overtook Camden, N.J., as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009, according to a national study released Sunday.
The study by CQ Press found St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4. That helped St. Louis beat out Camden, which topped last year's list and was the most dangerous city for 2003 and 2004.
Detroit, Flint, Mich., and Oakland, Calif., rounded out the top five. For the second straight year, the safest city with more than 75,000 residents was Colonie, N.Y.
The annual rankings are based on population figures and crime data compiled by the FBI. Some criminologists question the findings, saying the methodology is unfair.
Greg Scarbro, unit chief of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, said the FBI also discourages using the data for these types of rankings.
Kara Bowlin, spokeswoman for St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, said the city actually has been getting safer over the last few years. She said crime in St. Louis has gone down each year since 2007, and so far in 2010, St. Louis crime is down 7 percent.
Erica Van Ross, spokeswoman for the St. Louis Police Department, called the rankings irresponsible.
"Crime is based on a variety of factors. It's based on geography, it's based on poverty, it's based on the economy," Van Ross said.
"That is not to say that urban cities don't have challenges, because we do," Van Ross said. "But it's that it's irresponsible to use the data in this way."
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Reading is no longer the poorest city in the country. We have moved to number six (when you're at the bottom you can only move up or start digging and since there are no shovel ready jobs. . .) That said, just like everywhere else, we have serious...
- Hey! Goldurnit I Said This Yesterday
dang CNS stealing my thinking :) Violent Crime Declined As Gun Sales Climbed in 2009 Thursday, September 16, 2010 By Matt Cover (CNSNews.com) - Violent crime continued to fall in 2009, even as gun sales reached an all-time high, according to statistics...
- From My Cold Dead Hands
You'll recall that the media made a bit of a to do about the big jump in gun and ammo sales in the months running up to and immediately following the election of the Worst President in American History. If you're a gunner you certainly experienced...
- Why Did Obama's Church Honor Farrakhan: From The Jackasses Mouth
Obama says his church honored Farrakhan because of his good works in "the community." Don't believe him (From Richard Cohen at the Washington Post): Barack Obama is a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama’s...
- Storm Track Infiltration: Islamic Prayer Tower Rises Over St. Louis
We have problems right here in River City – eh, South St. Louis, that is. That’s right; St. Louis has joined the ranks of Bern, Switzerland and smack in the center of America’s heartland rises an Islamic prayer tower that will blast through its...