Is Cincinnati really dangerous? No. (Cleveland, Dayton: crimes, to buy, catholic schools)

[chartbury]

There are realtors on this board who will always rah-rah-rah the city to relocators -- they want business! No city in the world is "safe" (excepting perhaps Zurich, Vienna, the capital of Liechtenstein etc) and we all know American cities have their inner-city problems. Just always be aware!

Meanwhile the same statistics-generators that rate Cincinnati as in the top 20 for crime nationwide also place it in the most livable large city category!

It all depends on what's going on in YOUR neighborhood!

[HuskerDu]

Originally Posted by QueenCty

I don't think anyone has said you can walk down any street in the city at 2 AM and always feel completely safe. There are plenty that you can but definitely not all. This is all about degrees. There is crime, we know that, but relatively speaking it is not that bad. Certainly not to the point that the entire city can be characterized as dangerous.

I agree with your take Husker Du....also I was a little bummed out that Bob Mould is now being played on a TIAA-Cref commercial now by the way.

Haha... Yep, I hear songs from various points in Bob's career (Sugar, solo etc) all over the media. NPR plays him all of the time between segments and even The Daily Show keeps a version of Dog on Fire as it's theme. The new District Line album is really good btw.

Sorry to jack the thread...

[Traveler87]

Originally Posted by chartbury

There are realtors on this board who will always rah-rah-rah the city to relocators -- they want business! No city in the world is "safe" (excepting perhaps Zurich, Vienna, the capital of Liechtenstein etc) and we all know American cities have their inner-city problems. Just always be aware!

Meanwhile the same statistics-generators that rate Cincinnati as in the top 20 for crime nationwide also place it in the most livable large city category!

It all depends on what's going on in YOUR neighborhood!

Isnt that the truth. You hear about a cities crime, but many people miss the part where they hear it is in one neighborhood refusing to realize that the majority of the city is safe. The only major city in the U.S. they I did not feel safe in around the majority of the city was Detroit.

[unusualfire]

Cincinnati is on pace for under 40 murders this year.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by unusualfire

Cincinnati is on pace for under 40 murders this year.

That would make Cincinnati's murder rate 2.5x higher than the state average, and 3x higher than the national average.

A year or two ago when there were 78 murders, Cincinnati's murder rate was higher than Chicago's, and the population in Chicago at 6+ Million is 20x bigger than Cincinnati. And Chicago is more diverse. I can eat lunch in a Bosnian restaurant then walk two blocks and eat dinner in a Serbian restaurant. There's a community for every country in Central and South American, half of the African states, and all of the eastern European and Asian countries.

When the murder rate in Cincinnati drops to 16 per year, we can break out the champagne and dance at Moon-Lite Pool.

[Cincy-Rise]

Originally Posted by Mircea

That would make Cincinnati's murder rate 2.5x higher than the state average, and 3x higher than the national average.

This is irrelevant. How would Chicago compare to the state of OH or the national average? Should we compare Chicago to the the majority of the US's land area which would mostly be rural area? Does this speak of how safe or dangerous Chicago is? I guess in your eyes, it would show chicago as a pretty dangerous city, no?

... and the population in Chicago at 6+ Million is 20x bigger than Cincinnati. And Chicago is more diverse.

Let's re-write this to make more sense:

... and the population in Chicago at 6+ Million is 20x bigger than ______ (98% of US Cities). And Chicago is more diverse.

I can eat lunch in a Bosnian restaurant then walk two blocks and eat dinner in a Serbian restaurant. There's a community for every country in Central and South American, half of the African states, and all of the eastern European and Asian countries.

A little irrelevant to the subject at hand. Just a tad!

When the murder rate in Cincinnati drops to 16 per year, we can break out the champagne and dance at Moon-Lite Pool.

Last year Cincinnati had 20 murders to Chicago's 16 (per 100K). Cincinnati had 67 homicides compared to 467 ... That's 467(x)family members reasons to not break out the champagne either, if you ask me.


I think everyone on here can bank on Cincinnati averaging around 15/100K this year as well.

Oh, and Unusualfire's comment that got you so flustered would put us at 12 murders per 100K people.

[jlrosen]

chicago's population is 2.8 million, not 6

[jlrosen]

cincinnati is on pace for 12 homicides per 100k, to chicago's 15 per 100k

[Cincy-Rise]

Originally Posted by jlrosen

chicago's population is 2.8 million, not 6

lol! I didn't even catch that and I was even working the numbers!

[jlrosen]

also chicago is the 3rd largest city in the united states, so it is larger than 99.9% of all us cities.