Minneapolis crime rate similar to Oakland (Tyler, Nicollet: home, live, most dangerous)

[Kingsnkali]

I was just researching cities to check which ones have worse crime than Minneapolis. There aren't many. I was shocked at what has happened to my former home and beloved city of Minneapolis!

I can't believe Minneapolis has now moved into the Oakland class for violent crime. Minneapolis crime rate 703, Oakland 750. Unbelievable. What next, does Minneapolis battle it out with Detroit?

To put that in perspective, Gary Indiana has a crime rate is 527. Milwaukee 559. Chicago 565. Des Moines 492. Phoenix 590. Denver 550. Portland 545. Seattle 595.

Minneapolis used to be very safe back in the 60's and 70's. I remember years with only 6 murders. Now, there are probably weekends with that total.

Nowadays, Mary Tyler Moore would be chased down Nicollet Mall by roving gangs of thugs. Very sad what has happened to a former great city....

I left the city because the ultra liberal establishment has always been in total denial. Weak leadership. And it started long before the current Mayor. Just give the poor more welfare and services was their "solution", while professional welfare shoppers and troublemakers from Chicago and Detroit poured in each year.

[Slig]

yep, luckily most of the crime is concentrated in a few areas though. There are parts of Minneapolis with virtually no crime.

And yes I would agree that our lenient social programs are a major cause of this increased crime which started in the 90s.

[CTownNative]

The stats on city-data are older through.Minneapolis wasn't even in the top 25 for most crime while Oakland was.So Minneapolis must have cleaned up a little bit.Im also pretty sure not positive that Minneapolis was probably under the 650 mark in Crime rate.

[JenLee]

Once again I am amazed by these comments about the high crime in Mpls; so I tried Google to find out what this is all about. I'm wondering if THIS particular error is the cause of these 2 threads about Mpls' having a hig crime rate? http://www.startribune.com/462/v-print/story/487441.html (broken link)

[nick is rulz]

um its consistently gone down since the mid 1990s so I guess Im not sure why everyone harps about how bad its getting.

[Slig]

last year there were 60 murders in the city, which is the most since like 1997 or something like that.

[nick is rulz]

the murder rate doesnt concern me so much as when you track them case by case here, the vast majority of them tend to be related to drugs or gangs.

The robbery rate, on the other hand, concerns me. Your odds of being randomly murdered are a sliver of what they are of being stuck up.

[Slig]

Personally I think the murder rate is a good measurement of overall crime, although obviously not perfect. The crime that I watch out for most is vandalism, larcency, drugs and robbery.

[pirate_lafitte]

Minneapolis had 59 murders in 2006. Oakland had 148 murders. That is more than twice the number of homicides in Minneapolis. Minneapolis isn't the safest city in the USA, but it isn't the worst. Things can be done about it to get crime rate far lower than it is now.

[BelieveInCleve]

Why do people keep saying this?? Minneapolis is nowhere near the most dangerous city at all. look at morganquitno.com it shows the true rankings and Minneapolis is not even in the top 25. St. Louis is the most dangerous and then Detroit is in 2nd Cleveland is 7th most dangerous. Minneapolis has a population of about 380,000 and had only like 40 murders last year Cleveland has about 440,000 and had 120 murders last year. Minneapolis is nowhere near being that bad.