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tony barnhill

tony barnhill

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WOW!! St Louis has just been named the most dangerous city in the country....crime is rampart there! As we go about looking for locations for our reunions, there are 371 cities ranked from safest to most dangerous...Brick, NJ is the safest place!

Today's edition of "The Huntsville Times" lists them all....lemme know if you'd like to know where your hometown ranks- if it was ranked.
 
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It was a story on that in this morning's Albuquerque Journal. They listed the top ten worst, then skiped a couple hundred and listed some more. Albuquerque was #279.

Basil
 
and any of you from vermont will be the smartest and healthiest
 
My folks live near Brick, NJ. I think the average age of folks in that town is about 90.
Hard to do a "smash and grab" when you have that darned cane or walker to drag along. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
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....Today's edition of "The Huntsville Times" lists them all....lemme know if you'd like to know where your hometown ranks- if it was ranked.

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How about Farmingdale NY? It is in Nassau County.

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WOW!! St Louis has just been named the most dangerous city in the country....crime is rampart there!

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That is ridiculous. I spend a LOT of time in STL CITY. At all times of day and evening and night. Never have I felt unsafe. The police force does a great job here. Part of the problem with the 'ranking' is that STL CITY itself encompasses such a SMALL portion of the entire area. And crime? Petty crime, murder, rape, drugs? It's everywhere, even in Alabama.

I risk my life several times a week in STL city. That is ridiculous. And I'd already heard it on the news.
 
What I do find humorous is that Detroit came in second behind STL. Twice.
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well Yea!



mark in Vermont
 
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What I do find humorous is that Detroit came in second behind STL. Twice.
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I believe Detroit.....As far a STL......
Not in my experience

How about Da-Burgh....Pittsburgh, Pa. that is /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I live about an hour north in Grove City, Pa. but I go to the Burgh quite often.

Kinda wonder about Cleveland also.
 
All right- there's something fishy here.

My firm's original home town- the industrial center of my home region...has fallen to 10th Most Dangerous

That's right- Gary, Indiana...6 miles from where I sit right now...is comparatively safer than last year? We want out top 5 ranking back...and we're willing to do whatever it takes.
 
Isnt Saint Louis where Clark Griswald had all the hubcaps stolen off the family truckster?


mark
 
Article said St Louis has been in the upper tiers of the most dangerous cities in the US for some time...apparently, crime is on an upswing in the Midwest with St Louis' surging 20% over 2004's figures (actually, article said crime in the Midwest is growing faster than other parts of the country)....data comes from FBI records: murder rate in St Louis jumped 16% (4.8% increase nationally),...FBI considers aggravated assault, rape, homicide & robbery reports as violent crimes for the report.

New Mexico had 2 cities rated: Albuquerque at 93 & Las Cruces at 145 from "worst award".....Basil, they reversed the number on Albuquerque - its 279th from "safest"!

Pittsburg...65 from "worst".

Camden....5th; Philadelphia....29th; Baltimore....12th.

Farmingdale, NY wasn't rated - what's it near?
 
SO wierd, I travel to Chicago and St. Louis a lot for work, and always feel safer in STL. When I travel to chicago, I never spend the night, actually feel more at risk in Peoria.
Maybe the FBI are counting the population from registered voters, which means several hundreds of thousands of people that are deceased are padding the 'victimless' population. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
Nope, FBI only considers crimes committed inside the city limits....so all that stuff that happens over in East St. Louis wasn't counted (I wouldn't let the sun set on me in East St Lo....I've actually driven all way to Mt Vernon, IL to sleep in my RV rather than stop near East St Louis!)
 
Known fact that stop signs in East STL mean right foot. 'Specially on State Street. I'm very surprised that this city 'over 100,000' wasn't on the list.

STL city limits are actually quite small, but I can't dispute the stats.
 
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(I wouldn't let the sun set on me in East St Lo....I've actually driven all way to Mt Vernon, IL to sleep in my RV rather than stop near East St Louis!)

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Out of curiosity Tony... Is Fort Collins, CO on that list? We made Money magazines #1 city under 300,000 people to live in the US this summer. According to my LEO friends we are nationally known for our marijuana. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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I'll drive through ESTL any time of day or night. I do it every time I leave the horrible, dangerous city of STL and Sarah's loft there. In a B, top down, day or night.
 
Fort Carson, Colorado: 233 from "worst"/139 from "best"...don't think marijuana is usually considered 'violent' crime...though its use might possibly lead to such crime.
 
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