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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Detroit ranked most dangerous city in the country fourth year in a row
2012-10-21
Detroit was once the industrial capital of the nation. But, decades of economic decline and a ruinous recession have turned the Motor City into America's crime capital. For the fourth years in a row, Forbes.com has rated Detroit, Michigan, as the most dangerous city in the country -- with a violent crime rate of 2,137 per 100,000 residents. Many of the other places on the list are also declining industrial powerhouse cities that have been left ravaged by dwindling blue-collar jobs and rising unemployment.
Y'all just keep voting Democrat, though...
Posted by:Fred

#9  excellent - i've been looking for a place to sharpen my defenses against street muggings. maybe the local Emergency Room will even offer a "frequent flyer" program :-)
Posted by: Raider   2012-10-21 15:50  

#8  Are we sure that the title can't be expanded to all of North America even with the challengers from south of the border?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-10-21 14:48  

#7  The obvious solution would be winning the World Series, stated by a talking head last time the Tiggers made the playoffs, Detroit I believe had also been ranked most dangerous city that year.

Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-10-21 14:45  

#6  "Cleveland! We're not Detroit!"
Posted by: Frank G   2012-10-21 12:41  

#5  Yeah, still NUMBER ONE! In your face, suckahs.

Hey, you take civic pride where you find it.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-10-21 12:33  

#4  So let's compare Oakland and Richmond to San Francisco and Berkeley. Hmmm.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2012-10-21 11:32  

#3  Besoeker, cities with large concentrations of the poor have been dangerous for millenia. Read Dickens on 19th century London, or the history of New Orleans, which first hosted the Mafia in the US.
Posted by: lotp   2012-10-21 10:46  

#2  Raise the tax on bullets! That should go hand in hand with very tough gun control. All those "bad mens" won't afford to kill. I'm so smart.

-Typical liberal -
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2012-10-21 09:51  

#1  My search continues for the common denominator of crime ridden cities such as Detroit, Oakland, Chicago, Atlanta, Abuja, Salisbury Harare, Durban, and Johannesburg. I am on the cusp of ruling out frustrated Welsh coal miners and the oppressive Reinheitsgebot of 1516 (Bavarian beer purity order). My search continues. Any assistance you may proffer will be held in the strictest of confidence.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-10-21 08:04  

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