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Saturday, December 01, 2007

Top US Murder Cities

When you think of the murder capital, which city came to your mind? Is it New York? Not anymore because after years of increasing police enforcement the Big Apple actually becomes one of the safest metropolitan in United States. Detroit on the other hand being the unemployment capital becomes the murder capital in US. Here is the top ten cities in US with the most murder per 100,000 residents.
  1. Detroit - total murder (418) - murder per 100,000 (47.3)
  2. Baltimore - total murder (276) - murder per 100,000 (43.3)
  3. New Orleans - total murder (162) - murder per 100,000 (37.6)
  4. Newark, NJ- total murder (105) - murder per 100,000 (37.4)
  5. St. Louis- total murder (129) - murder per 100,000 (37.2)
  6. Oakland- total murder (145) - murder per 100,000 (36.4)
  7. Washington, D.C. - total murder (169) - murder per 100,000 (29.1)
  8. Cincinnati- total murder (89) - murder per 100,000 (28.8)
  9. Philadelphia- total murder (406) - murder per 100,000 (27.7)
  10. Buffalo- total murder (74) - murder per 100,000 (26.4)

1 Comments:

Blogger 504EMERALD said...

In they talk about NEW ORLEANS we not as bad as what people trying to make us out to be;all the killing one another needs to stop... much love to everyone stop the hate in crimes. GOD BLESS U ALL

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