St. Louis 5 homicides New Years morning is same amount as similar sized Lincoln, NE had all of last year (legal, suspect)

[corpgypsy]

Originally Posted by silverkris

Let's face it. This is yet another gratuituous thread to bash cities and states by political allegiance. Is the OP getting paid by the thread?

^^^

These threads mimic Trump's campaign strategy to "run against" American cities. IMO it is utterly shameful and predictably divisive!

[shadowne]

It looks like the owner of the Kulture Hookah Bar is in trouble. She was operating illegally.

https://www.wdtv.com/content/news/UP...untington-bar-

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Leona Valley

Blue cities in red or blue states have the highest violent crime rates. That includes murder, rape, assault, child molestation.

Tulsa is a red city in a red state and has a high violent crime rate. Explain that.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by mkpunk

St. Lou is a known area for crime and some gangs. It has been the location of one or two Crimeland docs.

St. Louis has had alot of gang activity going back to the early 20th century. Pillow Gang. Egan's Rats. Nowadays St. Louis has the Boys of Destruction and the Horseshoe Posse.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by silverkris

Let's face it. This is yet another gratuituous thread to bash cities and states by political allegiance. Is the OP getting paid by the thread?

Basically, that is what it is. I don't think the OP is getting paid. I think this is all about "GOP is the best, Democrats blow".

[Leona Valley]

Originally Posted by shadowne

Kulture Hookah Bar. Gee, I wonder who they cater to?

1st generation Hungarians?

[Leona Valley]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Tulsa is a red city in a red state and has a high violent crime rate. Explain that.

Tulsa as of 2010 was 15.6% black.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Leona Valley

1st generation Hungarians?

You don't know who did it. No one knows.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Leona Valley

Tulsa as of 2010 was 15.6% black.

That is barely above the national average, which is 13%.

Huntsville, Alabama is 30% Black and has a lower murder rate(and less violent crime) than Tulsa does. Both are red cities in red states. Why does Tulsa have more violence, in spite of a lower percentage of Blacks?

[bus man]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

In addition, violence can occur in some of the hollows and remote parts of Appalachia. Areas that are hard to get to, where it takes a while for the police to reach.

Someone gets murdered in the city, and especially when it's gang related, finding the body isn't difficult. Someone in a remote hollow gets shot to death, there are plenty of places to hide a body.

The entire state of West Virginia, with a population of about 1.8 million people, had 112 murders in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The city of St. Louis, with a population of about 318,000, had 205 murders in that same year.

I'm not saying that violence doesn't occur in Appalachia, because clearly it does. But you're a whole lot less likely to be murdered in West Virginia than you are in St. Louis.