i l l m a t i c Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 Camden, N.J., named most-dangerous cityDetroit relinquishes title just days after NBA meleeThe Associated PressUpdated: 5:31 a.m. ET Nov. 22, 2004 TRENTON, N.J. - Camden has been named the nation’s most-dangerous city, snatching the top spot from Detroit, according to a company’s annual ranking based on crime statistics. Officials in Camden, which was ranked third last year, downplayed the dubious designation Sunday, saying many steps have already been taken to reduce crime in the city. “We must give our people jobs, training and opportunity,” said City Councilman Ali Sloan-El, who pointed out that Camden’s poverty is an important contributing factor to its high crime rate. Atlanta, St. Louis and Gary, Ind. rounded out the top five in the most dangerous city rankings, which was to be released Monday by Morgan Quitno Corp. The company publishes “City Crime Rankings,” an annual reference book that will be published next month. Detroit fell to second in this year’s list. However, company president Scott Morgan told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in its Sunday edition that he had been unaware that St. Louis police omitted 5,760 crimes from their 2003 crime data. Provided with the correct data, Morgan found that St. Louis would have switched places with Atlanta. The news wasn’t all bleak for New Jersey. The state’s Brick Township was rated the second-safest city for the third straight year, behind only Newton, Mass., while the Garden State’s Dover Township was ranked tenth. The other communities in the top five were Amherst, N.Y., which had been ranked as the safest city for the past four years, followed by Mission Viejo, Calif., and Clarkstown, N.Y. The rankings look at the rate for six crime categories: Murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. It compares 350 cities with populations of 75,000 or more that reported crime data to the FBI. Final 2003 statistics, released by the FBI in October, were used to determine the rankings. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6555449/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 Heh, St. Louis is pretty dangerous. When I was there for my summer program the people told us to never go to East St. Louis, and if we did we were told to stay on the Metro till the absolute end which is at an Air Force base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prican25 Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 heh never been to camden, sounds like fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jjangthekid Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 i Heard st louis is pretty dangerous too. maybe in the top 10. one of my friends goes school there near WAsHU university called St Louis School of PHarmacy. They told me at night, the city goes wild... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmage479 Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 Meh.. at least Baltimore is improving, we're no longer in the top 3... What i think is sad is how the violence and crime becomes a normal way of life for most people living in it. 2 years ago everyone was upset because of the deaths from Beltway sniper near (not in) Baltimore, but 5 people get killed every day in East Baltimore and nobody bats an eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
random guy Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 I wouldn't feel safe anywhere in America, what with all the guns and crime going on there daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 i Heard st louis is pretty dangerous too. maybe in the top 10. one of my friends goes school there near WAsHU university called St Louis School of PHarmacy. They told me at night, the city goes wild... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, St. Louis University is in the ghetto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IxI SoNiK IxI Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 well.. its pretty much like a ghetto now... dirty streets, litter, graffiti, outer parts of camden aint so bad, wish the state would do something about it, it was once the big city around this area, now its nothing but a dump.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 pretty sweet, ive lived near both of them, i was born in New Jersey, and i live in Michigan now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.S.D Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 They have never live in my part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 lol i mentioned this to my dad and he was like, i drove through there once and that was enough, i never went there again, you would probably be safter in baghdad right now than you would be there. or something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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