Brush fires are a problem in the fall, but they’re confined to hillside communities in the suburbs. Pollution is a big problem, and even the move toward ecologically-friendly autos and such have had a limited effect on air quality.

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North St Louis is equivalently run-down and ghetto, if not more, than Detroit. A lot of South St Louis, especially south of downtown, are very ghetto and dangerous too.

Still, BY FAR the worst part of St. Louis is “Baden” in North St. Louis city. It is extremely deep in North St Louis and is probably the most dangerous place in America. Whenever you think of the ghetto with hearing gunshots and seeing dead bodies on the street all the time, you’re thinking of Baden. Especially the part between N Broadway and Hall St.

Going up anywhere in North St Louis is like suicide though, especially for a white man. My advice: If you go to St. Louis, Missouri stay in and only visit the county, and not NORTH COUNTY. Other than that, prepare to get into some trouble of possibly killed in the city.

I have thought again and have done so for decades.

I doubt you have done little, if any, reading regarding the subject.

Ponder the possibility that it is the culture carried within the sub-groups you mention vice skin pigmentation levels and income level that results in those two groups commiting such high crime rates.

Did it ever occur to you that THE MAIN REASON that blacks and mexicans are likely to be involved in violent crimes is that they have a much larger percentage of their demographic living far below the poverty line? If you think the reason they commit these crimes is their race, and not their desperate poverty, then think again.

it’s just north county. i remember i heard on the news last year someone shot someone over a freaking arby’s or hardees burger. so yes. THAT place is one of the dangerous city in the u.s.

so to tourists who want to see STL, DO IT! there’s SO much to do that are in SAFE places.

Did you know that the WTC area of New York is the most dangerous place in the US because 3000 out of every 50,000 people who worked there died on a single day in 2001? Where is WTC New York on that list? Heck, there probably aren’t 50,000 people in “Midtown” Detroit.

FYI, I live in “Midtown” Detroit, I walk to work every day and haven’t been killed or raped yet. Yeah, I watch my back. XD

To sum it up, take the neighborhoods off the list and deal only with whole cities and towns. Thank you very much.

But I also visited Kansas City, Missouri I think? Or Kansas

And they were much worse than what I thought. I’m still dramatized from that trip because I actually saw somebody get shot with my own two eyes. When I turned on the local nightly news all that they really showed was murders, 3 kidnappings, and robberies where they didn’t even catch the burglur’s. They even had the police cheif talking about how they will need outside help because of all the high powered guns and drugs they’ve found lying next to most of the dead victums. I’ts really sad if you ask me, I thought Kansas City was FARMLAND!!!! I really cant get ova the fact that KC police kicked in a dope house with 37 dead bodies in the basement!!! Y don’t I hear about this kind of stuff on the national news! But I told myself I will never visit that place again (unless i have a registered gun) because it was fun there!! LOL

Thanks!

No medical screening for those entering uhhh… not legally.

As for areas with lots of crime, I fear the reality of the situation is that despite the desire for political correctness the lower the percentage of Caucasians in an area the higher the violent crime rate.

Kinda’ hard to debate statistics and data and my own personal observations from constant travel to every major and most minor cities within 46 of the 48 contiguous states.

The mantra of embracing diversity and multi-culturalism always left me cold. Without at least a semblance of shared mores, beliefs, modes of behavior etcetera I fear Abe Lincoln’s warning may come about… “A house divided can not stand.”

I fear the Founder’s Great Experiment is headed for a fall; that the Union faces inevitable disintegration.

But, that’s okay. As long as warm fuzzy political correctness makes everybody feel good.

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Nobody has guessed the least lethal location yet. Anyone want to take a shot?

Typing “fatality” repeatedly like this makes me want to play Mortal Kombat.

Behind the wheel of your car.

They are based on potentials, according to US Geological Surveys and such. They are risks, not necessarily common occurrences. As you have yourself testified with the tornadoes ad the earthquake, they are possibilities in Memphis.

Who did this research?

read THIS article, and find me some NICE things to say about detroit! [st louis too, for that matter!] http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/the_bonus/01/07/detroit/

For an easy tool to look up zip codes, you can go here:
http://www.homefair.com/real-estate/city-profile/index.asp

What that does it tells you the amount over or less than the national average the area is. 100 would be average. 300 would be three times. The national average for murders is 7 per 100k, and for rape it’s 33 per 100k.

By Mid-town Detroit we mean the area whose boundaries are the Ford, Chrysler, Fisher, and Lodge Freeways – it includes Brush Park, Brewster-Douglass housing projects. For this specific crime report, you can use zip code 48201, which is the zip code where those housing projects are (so more residential, less commercial.)