Detroit tops Forbes list of the Most Dangerous Cities this year for the fifth year in a row. What is encouraging is the violent crime rate in the Motor City actually declined last year, despite crushing financial woes that drove Detroit into the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Crime affects the people of Detroit and the city’s reputation, employment, income and education. It should be stopped to make Detroit prosper and make the lives of the people living there better. Detroit had 316 murders in 2013, a rate of 45 per 100,000 people. That 's the highest rate among cities with populations over 100,000. In 2013 Detroit also reported 14,504 violent crimes. That 's also the highest per capita rate in the nation, according to the annual report. The total is comprised of rapes, murder, robbery and aggravated assault.
The number of homicides peaked in 1974 at 714 and again in 1991 with 615. By the end of 2010, the homicide count fell to 308 for the year with an estimated population of just over 900,000, the lowest count and rate since 1967. However, taken in context by population, Detroit remains as a city with one of the highest rates per capita for homicide in the United States. In April 2008, the city unveiled a $300-million stimulus plan to create jobs and revitalize neighborhoods, financed by city bonds and paid for by earmarking about 15% of the wagering tax. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Police Chief Chester Logan announced at a press conference. “We’ve just
This year’s shootings has climbed by twenty percent from 2013, there have been nearly one hundred homicides involving guns so far this year. This is an upsurge from sixty nine during the same period in both 2013 and 2014.In. In New York city officials have blamed the upsurge of homicides on deadly conflicts between career criminals and blamed gang activity in Brooklyn and the Bronx. On the other hand what’s been happening in Baltimore is different. The number of homicides has doubled while shootings has climbed more than eighty percent, and the vast majority of experts say that it is at partially connected to a averseness by police officers to aggressively do their jobs. (Sanburn, 2015)During the year of 2013 the population in New York, NY was 8,396,126 and they had 335 reported homicides, while Baltimore, MD had a population of 622,671 people and 233 reported. (Crime in te Unied States 2013,
Being that Baltimore is segregated, a study from Harvard shows that "Baltimore is the worst large city in the country when measure by a child's chances of escaping poverty" (qt. "How Racism"). This can increase the number of crimes that might happen in the future; In the past year the amount of crimes in Baltimore based on a 100,000 population was 600 robberies, 37.4 rapes, and so far 131 homicides just this year.
According to the FBI Unified Crime Report for 2009, there were 385 murders in that year. The total population for Detroit in 2009 was just over 951,000. (The Neighborhood Scout, 2009) In Minneapolis, a city with about one-half the population of Detroit, the number of murders was 47. Not only is the population less than Detroit, the murder rate 6 times lower than Detroit. Here you can see that population seems to play a role in the amount of murders for these metropolitan areas. The area that had the most reported incidents of murder was Detroit. Minneapolis has shown that they have seen a 17% decrease in violent crimes over the past 3 years.
As we all know, Camden today is plagued by many problems including gun violence, poverty, robberies, and other crimes such as arsons, assaults, rapes, homicides, and auto thefts. Statics show and prove that Camden New Jersey is one of the top most dangerous places to live in the United States in the world today. You 're probably thinking to yourself of how many annual crimes there is a year in the city of Camden. Camden has a total of 4,431 crimes per year, which is a humongous about. With having a crime rate of 87 per one
Crime is something that happens every day. Many people fear it, but it is a factor that people cannot escape. In places, like Detroit, people are surrounded by violent crime. Either they are the victims of it, or the committers, but it was not always like this. During the sixties, Detroit was one of the most lucrative cities in the country. Many people moved there to seek jobs in the automotive factories which increased the population to 1.85 million. (Padnani, 2013) However, this is not the case now. Many of the factories have moved, putting people and their families at a disadvantage. A numerous amount of workers relied on these jobs to feed their families. Since then, Detroit has faced a significant amount of hardships that has caused the city to deteriorate effecting education, employment, and the crime rate each factor acts as a chain reaction. The lack of diversity in the city can be a factor of the crime rate as well because Detroit is filled with a large population of minorities. Many politicians have looked for ways to solve the problem, but nothing has been proven to work.
The city of Stockton had a crime rate of 695 crimes per 10,000 residents. PBS Newshour states, “One thing builds upon another. The poor financial situation has forced the police force to drop by 27 percent recently. And that, of course, has made the already high crime rate go up even more” (PBS Newshour, 2012). Crime has been one of the biggest factors that has affected the health of the community in many ways by causing fear of assault, gang-related violence, and having it as a barrier to using community parks, exercising outdoors, walking to and from school, accessing local food outlets, and using public transportation, (SJC2HAC, pg. 31,
In 2015, Phoenix, AZ had a lower number of homicides compared to Dallas, TX. This is a city that is demographically similar to Phoenix. In 2015 Phoenix, AZ had 113 homicides, while Dallas, TX had 136 homicides (Martin, 2016). That is not a major difference, but Dallas is slightly higher in homicides. In the “Dallas News” it stated that Dallas homicides had increased 17 percent compared to the 2014 homicide number (Martin, 2016). The Dallas 2015 homicide number is still less dangerous compared to previous years (Martin,
Memphis took over St. Louis’ position as the 1st Most Dangerous City in America, and rising up one place from last year. Although Memphis moved up on the list, the city still managed to decrease its viocontinued its downward trend in violent crime this year, moving down one spot to be the Most Dangerous City and the United States. The city saw its fewest number of total crimes since 1966. Despite this trend, St. Louis still has the fourth highest violent crime rate among large cities in the United States. The city’s encouraging 20 percent drop in crime during the first six months of 2013 continued through the year’s end, as violent crime went down 10 percent for the entire year. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson has the trend in crime reduction to several of the citDetroit. The Motor City tops the list ofAmerica 's Most Dangerous Cities for the fourth straight year thanks to a stubborn problem mostly with gang-related violence. Violent crimes -- murder, rape, robbery and assault -- fell 10% last year but are still running five times the national average
There have been periods of low crime rates in the 21st century. Crime control was greatly affected by the recession as county and city funding took blow after blow. The most dangerous city in the Bay Area is Oakland,“The city recorded nearly 17 violent crimes per 1,000 residents last year, far outpacing other places in the Bay Area. The city had 80 homicides, 3,140 assaults, 3,481 robberies and 209 rapes - ranking No. 3 nationally in violent crime per capita behind only Detroit and Memphis” (Sernoffsky). All over the Bay Area, city leaders are trying to increase there police ranks to historic numbers. Violent crime in Oakland is high in the Eastern and Western Oakland neighborhoods. Even though Oakland has high crime rates, the rate of police officers have
When people move to a new city, they want a city that their children can grow up, have friends, and be safe with other children in the community. That is not always the case here in Detroit, since “In the group’s survey of 1,300 Detroit high school students, 87 percent said a family member or friend had been shot, murdered or disabled as a result of violence in the previous 12 months” (Abbey-Lambertz). That number is too high for anyone regardless of location. It got so bad in Detroit that at one point “It used to be that nobody wanted to go downtown” (Foroohar). Now it is sad when people are scared to go downtown in their city. It makes the city look bad when its own resident do not want to go downtown. Along with murder and violence, Detroit also has a drug problem. There is a location in Detroit “on the old Cass Corridor, and area better known for prostitutes and drug dealers” (Perman). Drugs and prostitutes generally are appealing to live around. Now everything is not all bad about
We've all heard of chicago horrible crimes rates , but can dallas be right behind chicago with their crimes rates?Reporters have showed in violent crimes dallas has reach 58.7 and in property crime they've reach 57.7.While in chicago their violent crimes have reach 58.9, and their property crime is 52.1.Imagine you and your family on one weekend having fun, but in a second that can change .These two articles show ,how the crime rates have affected these two cities.
Detroit, many call it the worst place in America, other detroiters like myself call it home. It takes a strong person to be able to withstand all the things going on around you. For those who know it, it’s a place that has many memories that can not be erased, things that most citizens have no recollection of, and secrets the government will never release to the public. Detroit’s truths are only comprehended by a few. The drugs, murder, rape, hospital abuse, and even corruption within the government. Many who are unfortunate enough to bear the weight of Detroit’s burdens have often told stories about their experiences. This, however, is not a review of all those stories but a personal terror.
“It has been compared to the surface of the moon, here on earth. Parts of it look like Beirut or Fallujah after the firing stopped,” states, NBC News Reporter Brian Williams. The neighborhoods and buildings appeared to be third world, like a war zone occurred there. Broken windows, trash laden streets, drug transactions taking place right in front of the police, even during mid-day. Camden New Jersey is now reported as the most dangerous city in America, taking over for Chicago which has recently had a crime reduction. On average Camden is faced with a homicide occurring roughly, every 33 hours. Children and families within the community prefer to stay inside their homes and are terrified to be outside in certain areas (adamv2).
Chicago has always been known as a city full of crime and hate and more recently it has gotten even worse. In 2016, Chicago had 762 homicides this is more than what New York and Los Angles have combined, mind you two of the largest cities in the nation have had less homicides in their cities than Chicago has had. Chicago not only had 762 homicides, but also had 1,100 more shootings than they had previously in 2015. In comparison New York, which is the largest city in the nation, had only 334 homicides in 2016 and Los angles following behind with only 294.With all the homicides and shootings it has made the issue of gun violence a huge topic when pertaining to this city. In only the past year, police have retrieved 8,300 illegal guns. Another topic that has been brought into societies eyes is with the severe increase of violence is the areas where gangs are most typically active, these areas being areas with low-income families and predominantly black areas.
All data from the is article was gathered from the 2015 FBI Crime Report statistics, excluding cites with less than 10,000 residents. All violent crime data was then calculated per thousand residents. Each city description includes the violent crime rate per thousand residents, the city’s overall population, number of murders, number of total violent crime, and rank on the 2014 FBI Crime Report list.