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Interesting to see KCMO with more homicides than St Louis. St Louis will almost certainly end up pulling ahead, though both St Louis and Kansas City have very bad "inner city" crime, it's just that Kansas City's crime isn't as notable because it gets diluted by all the quiet suburbia it has in its absurdly exaggerated city limits ...
Miami has small city limits and a small amount of homicides. You have to judge St. Louis on its city limits. Yes the city limits are small but a large number of murders take place in that small area. So this dosent effect someone as much that is in another suburb close by as much as it can effect the person living within those city limits that deals with it. If you are safer 2 miles away that does no good for the 300,000 living within those small city limits.
I could say if you add on 3 miles to Albuquerque’s southside city limits then crime would probably go up. We could say things like that for every city. This just lets you know how dangerous Inner city St Louis actually is.
Agreed. But to expand on your point, it's true that roughly half of the city comprises the north side and the other half comprises the south side (there is no "east side" or "west side" of St Louis city). The majority of homicides take place on the north side, roughly half the land area of the city. If the two areas were split into separate cities, the north would have an insanely high homicide rate, the south's would be very low compared to similar sized cities/
Agreed. But to expand on your point, it's true that roughly half of the city comprises the north side and the other half comprises the south side (there is no "east side" or "west side" of St Louis city). The majority of homicides take place on the north side, roughly half the land area of the city. If the two areas were split into separate cities, the north would have an insanely high homicide rate, the south's would be very low compared to similar sized cities/
I would go so far as to single out the i70 corridor north of Natural Bridge rd east of the city limits. They call it the triangle. Gentrification is on its way to the area. How long will it take? I don't know. The poverty needs to be spread out. Don't dump everything in north county.
For Chicago 85 and 86 following a double homicide and 1 critically injured in Back of The Yards a mixed Black/Latino neighborhood
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